. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . which the act of war begins with the burning of a house. Wace gives us the story of a friendly baron, whose name he did not know,but who came and warned William of Harolds movements. As to theburning of the house, there has been a great deal of guesswork about it. Ibelieve it means no more than a bit of conventional symbolism that the warhas begun in earnest. To these two incidents in panel 53 succeed the feats ofarms which take up the remaining part of the Tapestry, and which I will treatas a whole. This last portion of the document consists in twenty-two
. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . which the act of war begins with the burning of a house. Wace gives us the story of a friendly baron, whose name he did not know,but who came and warned William of Harolds movements. As to theburning of the house, there has been a great deal of guesswork about it. Ibelieve it means no more than a bit of conventional symbolism that the warhas begun in earnest. To these two incidents in panel 53 succeed the feats ofarms which take up the remaining part of the Tapestry, and which I will treatas a whole. This last portion of the document consists in twenty-two panels, from the54th to the 75th inclusive. In the first you have the conventional repre-sentation of a knight fully armed representing the whole body as it were, andriding out from Hastings on the morning of that October day which bysunset had determined the fate of England. It has been said by more than one modern English writer that the soldier.
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