[143] contend.
[144] sling.
[145] It is curious to compare these highborn ladies of the ninth century with another fair standard-weaver somewhat nearer our own times. Katherine of Arragon, writing to Wolsey, when the king was campaigning in France, says: "I am horridly busy with making standards, banners, and badges."
[146] Gestor. Sax., lib. i.
[147] Arnulphus Mediol., [1]. ii. c. 16; Ricordano Malespina, Hist. Fior., cap. 164; Burchardus, Epistola de excidio urbis Mediolanens., tom. vi.; Hist, Rer. Ital., p. 917.
[148] Lib. vii. c. 37.
[149] Roy. MS. 18, A. xii., f. 105.
[150] Ap. Labbæum in Chronolog., lib. ii.; Daniel, Mil. Fran., i. 557.
[151] Reinaud et Favé: Du feu grégeois, &c., p. 218.
[152] The events depicted in the Bayeux tapestry have been carefully identified and described by M. Lancelot in the Mémoires de l'Acad. des Inscrip., viii. 602. This paper has been reprinted by M. Thierry among the Pièces justificatives of his Conquête de l'Angleterre, vol. i.