Harold Godwinson swears an oath on an altar and a reliquary to William Duke of Normandy and returns by sailing ship to England. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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