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

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Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News, Bayeux Tapestry (wool embroidery on linen)
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Artist
Unknown Artist, (11th century)
Location
Musée de la Tapisserie, Bayeux, France
Medium
wool embroidery on linen
Date
c. 1070 AD (C11th AD)
Image description

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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