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2023-03-17 at 3:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson March 17th 2016
Trip to Hastings to see the famous 1066AD Battle of Hastings battlefield
Battle Abbey built on the hill after the battle where Harold allegedly got shot in the eye…looks ok for 950yrs old
Inside Battle Abbey
Another pic inside the Abbey, remains of an old hearth where stories were told of old
A view of the battlefield itself where near 1000 years ago swords clashed and a kingdom was lost.
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2023-03-17 at 3:32 PM UTCHere's why the arrow in the eye has become controversial in recent years...
We were taught in School King Harold died after being shot in the eye by an arrow, primarily because of the depiction on the bayeux tapestry which chronicles the battle of Hastings.
...however as you can see below it's not actually clear which one is supposed to be King Harold, the guy with the arrow in his eye or the one being chopped down by the guy on the horse...I GUESS WE'LL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH!
The text says "Harold the King is killed"
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2023-03-17 at 3:35 PM UTCMy memories are mostly confined to my snapchat and on this day last year I suggested a paper mask bonfire on the following weekend that never happened and instead I think I went to a country bar that had pitbulls and a baby running around
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2023-03-17 at 3:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Here's why the arrow in the eye has become controversial in recent years…
We were taught in School King Harold died after being shot in the eye by an arrow, primarily because of the depiction on the bayeux tapestry which chronicles the battle of Hastings.
…however as you can see below it's not actually clear which one is supposed to be King Harold, the guy with the arrow in his eye or the one being chopped down by the guy on the horse…I GUESS WE'LL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH!
The text says "Harold the King is killed"
Where's his crown? -
2023-03-17 at 4 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump Where's his crown?
I think he left that at home during battles.
There were a lot of old pools swampy parts around the battle field...I'm sure they've been gone through with a fine tooth comb but I had an urge to go buy a metal detector and start looking for ancient swords -
2023-03-17 at 4:06 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson …however as you can see below it's not actually clear which one is supposed to be King Harold, the guy with the arrow in his eye or the one being chopped down by the guy on the horse…I GUESS WE'LL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH!
The text says "Harold the King is killed"
englishman doesnt understand .... this thing,
the main subject is king harolds death, and as in any drawing or moving pictures the subject matter is positioned at the dead center of the piece.
can you see which one of then is in the dead center ? -
2023-03-17 at 4:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny
englishman doesnt understand …. this thing,
the main subject is king harolds death, and as in any drawing or moving pictures the subject matter is positioned at the dead center of the piece.
can you see which one of then is in the dead center ?
Um that's not dead center dummy...the tapestry is like 230ft long. Dead center in this snippet is the fucking horse
Take it up with historians nigga. -
2023-03-17 at 4:12 PM UTC"Despite the popularity of the ‘arrow in the eye' story, historians have not reached a consensus on how Harold was killed at Hastings. In fact, some of the greatest historians of the Norman Conquest, such as Sir Frank Stenton and David Douglas, were less than convinced by the ‘arrow in the eye' tale, and others, such as Henry Loyn and Frank Barlow, rejected it entirely. At the heart of this controversy lies the ambiguity of the earliest Norman sources. Both William of Jumièges and William of Poitiers, who were writing during the late 1060s and 1070s respectively, skip over Harold's death. William of Poitiers' ‘Deeds of William [the Conqueror]' contains the most detailed account of the battle, and his knowledge of military affairs, informed by his own experience of fighting for the duke in his youth, is impressive. But he does not pay much attention to Harold's death, an unusual."
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2023-03-17 at 4:13 PM UTC
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2023-03-17 at 4:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny
dead center between the caption. thats time timestamp.
hes the one on the horse.
See above dummy...
the one on the horse is NOT king Harold...they didn't have horses (to speak of
"King Harold's troops also had some horses, but they preferred to fight from the ground rather than on horseback. Ultimately, William's troops defeated Harold's, Harold was killed on the battlefield, and William became King William I, ruler of England." -
2023-03-17 at 4:18 PM UTC"The two armies that fought in the Battle of Hastings were organised very differently, see more on the difference between the Norman and Anglo Saxon side here. One major difference was the Knights - although the Anglo Saxons rode horses to battle, they were not actually used in the conflict themselves."
Vinny, once again you make yourself look like an idiot
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2023-03-17 at 4:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson See above dummy…
the one on the horse is NOT king Harold…they didn't have horses (to speak of
"King Harold's troops also had some horses, but they preferred to fight from the ground rather than on horseback. Ultimately, William's troops defeated Harold's, Harold was killed on the battlefield, and William became King William I, ruler of England."
do you really want me to humiliate you with english history ? -
2023-03-17 at 4:20 PM UTC
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2023-03-17 at 4:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson "The two armies that fought in the Battle of Hastings were organised very differently, see more on the difference between the Norman and Anglo Saxon side here. One major difference was the Knights - although the Anglo Saxons rode horses to battle, they were not actually used in the conflict themselves."
Vinny, once again you make yourself look like an idiot
the kings body was brought back by his horse. -
2023-03-17 at 4:22 PM UTC
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2023-03-17 at 4:29 PM UTC"As bad as the battle went for Harold's army, it went worse for Harold on a personal level. There are conflicting accounts of his death, including the famous Bayeux Tapestry. It's widely accepted that he was shot in the eye by an arrow, but it's noteworthy that this method of death was the "proper fate of perjurers" in the Middle Ages. Some sources report that Norman knights hacked Harold II to death with their swords. According to History Extra, Harold's body was so mauled by violence that his lover, Edith Swannesha, had to be brought in to identify it based on "certain marks" on his private areas. No one knows what happened to the king's body after that."
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2023-03-17 at 4:33 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson "As bad as the battle went for Harold's army, it went worse for Harold on a personal level. There are conflicting accounts of his death, including the famous Bayeux Tapestry. It's widely accepted that he was shot in the eye by an arrow, but it's noteworthy that this method of death was the "proper fate of perjurers" in the Middle Ages. Some sources report that Norman knights hacked Harold II to death with their swords. According to History Extra, Harold's body was so mauled by violence that his lover, Edith Swannesha, had to be brought in to identify it based on "certain marks" on his private areas. No one knows what happened to the king's body after that."
how many times was harold depicted in the tape[stry] ? -
2023-03-17 at 4:39 PM UTC
