William Duke of Normandy’s banquet feast in Hastings. Servants bring roast fowl and plates of food to the Duke, Bishop Odo and other nobles seated at a large curved Sigma table. War council with Bishop Odo and Robert, Count of Mortaine. 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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