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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6466269, member: 110504"]...Except, I'm thinking that the banner isn't really striped; it's an attempt to represent the pennons on a banner of the late 11th century, as you see from the Bayeux Tapestry. From here, it looks as if the square edge of the banner was a concession by the celator to the space required by the legends. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258274[/ATTACH]</p><p>(From this website: <a href="http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Bayeux_Tapestry_Banners.jpg&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Bayeux_Tapestry_Banners.jpg&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop" rel="nofollow">http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Bayeux_Tapestry_Banners.jpg&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop</a>)</p><p>This is no less typicalically Norman than the shields, or the practice of of riding with your banner (thank you, /lance) over your shoulder, rather than 'couched,' a practice that didn't become common until a ways into the 12th century.</p><p>Point being, the depiction of Roger is only more quintessentially late-11th-century Norman the closer you look at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6466269, member: 110504"]...Except, I'm thinking that the banner isn't really striped; it's an attempt to represent the pennons on a banner of the late 11th century, as you see from the Bayeux Tapestry. From here, it looks as if the square edge of the banner was a concession by the celator to the space required by the legends. [ATTACH=full]1258274[/ATTACH] (From this website: [URL]http://www.vikingage.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Bayeux_Tapestry_Banners.jpg&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop[/URL]) This is no less typicalically Norman than the shields, or the practice of of riding with your banner (thank you, /lance) over your shoulder, rather than 'couched,' a practice that didn't become common until a ways into the 12th century. Point being, the depiction of Roger is only more quintessentially late-11th-century Norman the closer you look at it.[/QUOTE]
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