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- Title
The Death of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- Authors
Cashman, Luke
- Abstract
The article explores how King Harold II Goodwinson actually died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 through the Bayeux tapestry, a 70 metre-long embroidery that depicts the Norman invasion of England. It takes into account the ambiguity of the Tapestry which depicts the death of Harold by an arrow-in-the-eye theory. It is stated that Harold's death as shown in the Tapestry is as gruesome as it random lends a certain tragic romance that is both repulsive and beguiling. The author argues that the idea that Harold was killed or at least mortally wounded through an arrow appears to be a myth, adding that the origin and propagation of the myth are based on a literal study of the said Tapestry and an over-reliance on certain primary sources.
- Subjects
HASTINGS (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; HAROLD, King of England, ca. 1022-1066; BAYEUX tapestry; BATTLE of Hastings, England, 1066; BRITISH kings &; rulers; VAGUENESS (Philosophy); MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Agora, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 4, p25
- ISSN
0044-6726
- Publication type
Article