Count Guy I of Ponthieu in conference with Harold Godwinson, and Guy with huge axe receiving messengers from Duke WIlliam of Normandy. A dwarf Turold holds their horses. 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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