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Dramatis Personae 15
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AU T H OR ’S NOT E
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Around the year 1100 the French chronicler and prelate Baudri
of Bourgueil composed a poem for Countess Adele of Normandy,
daughter of William the Conqueror, in which he wrote of a silken
tapestry embroidered in gold and silver, depicting the Norman
conquest of England. As described, Countess Adele’s tapestry (which
perhaps never existed) could not be Foucault’s, but had plainly
inspired Baudri’s poem.
Then again, in AD 1476, an inventory of the possessions of
Bayeux Cathedral listed “a very long and narrow hanging of linen,
embroidered with images and inscriptions, representing the conquest
of England, which is stretched around the nave of the church during
the day and during the octave of the Feast of Relics [July 1].”
In 1562 the monks of Bayeux, forewarned of the imminent arrival
of a troop of Huguenots (French Protestants in that country’s Wars
of Religion), had hidden the tapestry away – wisely, as the Huguenots
sacked the cathedral, destroying its stalls, organs, icons and relics.
Perhaps the tapestry was thought long lost as well. Over 160 years
later, Montfaucon wrote:
It took a long time to discover the place where this artwork was
found. Not doubting that M. Foucault, who had been Intendant
in Normandy, had taken this masterpiece from Caen or Bayeux, I
turned to our colleagues in that country. From the letters that they
sent me, I believe that it is a length of tapestry that is kept in the
Cathedral of Bayeux, and that is exhibited on certain days of the
year. This cloth taking the length of the Church, it is to be believed
that what we have here is only a small part of the story.
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author’s note
*
The Anglo-Saxon futhorc differed from the Germanic Elder Futhark in having 26 runic
characters instead of 24. The Elder Futhark rune ᚨ, called ansuz (transliterated as the letter a),
became three: ᚫ, æsc (æ); ᚪ, ac (a); and ᚩ, ōs (o).
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*
As shall be seen, exact dating for events in our story will prove problematic, since January 1
was not universally accepted among Anglo-Saxons as the start of a new year. Some annalists
set it at the preceding Christmas or winter solstice, others with the spring equinox in March or
even the fall equinox in September. According to Bede, the Anglo-Saxon calendar, following the
cycle of the moon, was further complicated by the occasional addition of a thirteenth month in
midsummer, to stay in step with the seasons. For much of the Middle Ages in most of Western
Europe, including England and Scotland, New Year’s Day was March 25. Scotland did not
convert to modern dating until January 1 of the year 1600, and England not until 1752.
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author’s note
gained audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, and the term “Anglo-
Saxon” has traditionally had a less toxic connotation in the United
Kingdom than that being assigned to it in the United States. However,
since this is a book in part about the historic Anglo-Saxons, let me
just say this.
I suspect none of us will ever really know what the great majority of
the Anglo-Saxons called themselves, because it was hardly ever written
down in their language. I would concede that most of them did not
think of themselves as Angelcynn, or even English, but as Mercian,
Northumbrian, Kentish, West Saxon, et cetera. Those kingdoms
originally spoke separate, unique dialects of Old English, mutually
comprehensible but clearly identifying the speaker as “different,” the
way international speakers of English can recognize each other today
– evidence of how insular those peoples were. By far the vast majority
of Anglo-Saxons, illiterate and tied to their own little plots of land,
thought of themselves as nothing more than members of their village,
viewing anyone from beyond a radius of a few miles as an outsider.
That disunity is one of the reasons why they were overrun by the
Danes, who were from a country smaller and more tightly knit than
most of those in England at the time, and who further altered the
speech of their eastern and northern parts of England with their Old
East Norse.
All that said, what matters is not what the medieval English
called themselves, but what others called them. It was medieval
chroniclers on the Continent who first referred to Angli Saxones,
Angulsaxones, Angolsaxones or Anglosaxones, to distinguish them
from the continental Saxons who didn’t make the Channel crossing.
Pre-Conquest English kings adopted Latin terms in manuscripts,
charters (land deeds), legal documents and, importantly, their title,
even in their very coronation rites: rex Anglorum [et] Saxonum, rex
Angulsaxonum and rex Anglo Saxonum, King of the Anglo-Saxons.
The very first inscriptions in the late M. Foucault’s sketches were
of a seated king, REX, and a horse-borne warrior, HAROLD DUX
ANGLORUM.
Montfaucon recognized those figures on sight. Later he recalled:
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In that same manner, let us now uncover that which is also too often
passed over in silence: the six and a half decades leading up to those
first panels on the Bayeux Tapestry, and the eighteen or so months
leading to its bloody conclusion.
Don Hollway
December 2022
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DR A M AT I S PERS O N A E
THE VIKINGS
Cnut Sveinsson, the Great: Son of Svein Forkbeard, King of England 1016–
1035, King of Denmark 1018–1035, King of Norway 1028–1035
Eilif Thorgilsson: Brother of Ulf, jarl under King Cnut
Eric Hakonsson: Jarl of Norway 1000–1012, Earl of Northumbria 1017–
1020s, father of Hakon Ericsson
Hakon Ericsson: Son of Eric Hakonsson, Jarl of Norway 1012–1015 and
1028–1029
Harald II Sigurdsson, the Hard Ruler: Half-brother of Olaf, uncle of
Magnus, King of Norway 1045–1066
Harald II Sveinsson: Son of Svein Forkbeard, King of Denmark
1014–1018
Harold I, Harefoot: Son of Cnut, King of England 1035–1040
Harthacnut: Son of Cnut, King of England 1035–1042
Heming Haraldsson: Jomsviking, brother of Thorkell the Tall
Magnus Olafsson, the Good: Son of Olaf, King of Norway 1035–1047
Olaf I Haraldsson, the Stout: Father of Magnus I, King of Norway
1015–1028
Stigand: Chaplain and advisor to Cnut, Harefoot, Harthacnut, and
Emma of Normandy, Archbishop of Canterbury 1052–1070
Svein Haraldsson, Forkbeard: Father of Cnut the Great, King of Denmark,
986–1014, King of Norway 986–995 and 1000–1014, King of England
1013–1014
Thorkell Haraldsson, the Tall: Leader of the Jomsvikings
Ulf Thorgilsson: Jarl of Skane, later jarl and regent of Denmark
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