Identifier: cu31924030675452 (find matches)
Title: The Bayeux tapestry elucidated
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Bruce, J. Collingwood (John Collingwood), 1805-1892
Subjects: Bayeux tapestry
Publisher: London : J.R. Smith
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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man brought it on his arm and placed itbefore ^lim; but, in putting his head in to get it on, he inadvert-ently turned it the wrong way, with the back in front. He quicklychanged it; but when he saw that those who stood by him weresorely alarmed, he said, I never believed in omens, and I neverwill. I trust in God. The hauberk which was turned wiong andthen set right, signifies that I who have hitherto been but dtlke,shall be changed into a king. Then he crossed himself, and straight-way took his hauberk, stooped his head, and put it on aright; andlaced his helmet and girt his sword, which a varlet brought him. There is something poetical in the error which William made.He was too good a general to be boastful—he had been too oftenin the field not to know the diflference between the putting on andthe putting off of the armour—^he knew too well, moreover, theserious nature of the venture which he had made to pay muchattention to the duties of his military toilet. His capacious mind
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THE BATTLE. 129 was weigliing the chances of victory or defeat, and for the last timereviewing all the arrangements which he had made for eitheralternative. The Korman Duke, notwithstanding his usual ex-emption from superstitious influences, did not consider his prepara-tion for battle complete until he had strung around his neck aportion of the relics over which Harold had taken his faithless vow.William entrusted the standard which the Pope had given him toTurstin Fitz-Eou. His demeanour, rendered even more thanusually commanding by the greatness of the occasion, seems to haveattracted the attention of his companions in arms;— Never (saidthe Yiscount of Toarz), never have I seen a man so fairly armed,nor one who rode so gallantly, or bore his arms or became his hau-berk so well; neither any one who bore his lance so gracefully, orsat his horse or manoeuvred so nobly. There is no such knightunder heaven ! a fair knight he is, and a fair king he will be ! We are now prepared for exa

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