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Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)

Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News. Painting by English School - Bridgeman Images
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Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)

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English School, (11th century) / English

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Musée de la Tapisserie, Bayeux, France

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wool embroidery on linen

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c. 1070 AD (C11th AD)

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Sewn by English women probably in Kent to a Norman brief, the embroidery illustrates the events leading to the Norman invasion and conquest of England by an army led by Duke William of Normandy and the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. A strange star appears (Halley's Comet) and Harold is warned it is an omen

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