. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . and you get as a sequel (in 49) the raiding of houses, the slaughtering of cattleand of sheep, the commandeering of horses; and next again (in 50) you havethe preparing of a meal, and it is to be remarked how minute are the detailshere compared with the vagueness of detail in the building of the , for instance, at the little stove of charcoal on which one of the cooksis preparing the meat, and the spits with their roasted pieces, and see how thedraughtsman—whoever he was—knew more of courts than of artizans. Andthe feast itself, which follows, is
. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . and you get as a sequel (in 49) the raiding of houses, the slaughtering of cattleand of sheep, the commandeering of horses; and next again (in 50) you havethe preparing of a meal, and it is to be remarked how minute are the detailshere compared with the vagueness of detail in the building of the , for instance, at the little stove of charcoal on which one of the cooksis preparing the meat, and the spits with their roasted pieces, and see how thedraughtsman—whoever he was—knew more of courts than of artizans. Andthe feast itself, which follows, is interesting as showing a table laid out incontinuity with classic custom, served from the inside of its horse-shoe oroblong. In the inscription, though hardly to be discerned upon the Tapestry,we have the benediction of the meats by the bishop—and the bishop shouldmean Odo. But we have, I believe, no MSS. authority for that little incidentat all. The bishop is probably brought in here for the purpose of the next.
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