|
How did Harold himself die? Lately there' s been an attempt to read the death scene in the Tapestry as though he was the figure cut down by the horseman, not the warrior pulling the arrow out of his eye, the story you and I grew up with. But it seems to me perfectly clear that the words " Harold Rex" occur directly and significantly above the arrowstruck figure. Then certainly the knights would have been on him, cutting him down, leaving him disembowelled. The Thanes bravely mounted a last stand, defending the body of their King, but for many it was now a lost cause. It was time to save one' s neck, to get out of the way. There are such sad stories of what follows, and perhaps some of them are true. One of them has Harold' s lover, Edith Swan Neck, walking through the heaps of gory corpses to identify the dead King by marks on his body, known only to her. What we do know is that around half the nobility of England perished on that battlefield. |
|
hā luó dé shì zěn me sǐ de? zuì jìn yǒu rén shì tú jiě dú, guà tǎn shàng hā luó dé sǐ wáng de yī mù, rèn wéi tā sì hū shì nà gè bèi qí bīng kǎn sǐ de rén. ér fēi wǒ men cóng xiǎo tīng dào de nà gè cóng yǎn zhōng bá jiàn bá de zhàn shì. bù guò zài wǒ kàn lái, yǎn bù zhōng jiàn de rén, tóu dǐng chū xiàn de hā luó dé lái kè sī zì yàng bù yán zì míng, dāng rán qí shì, yǒu kě néng hé tā jiāo shǒu, bìng jiāng tā dǎ luò mǎ xià, jiāng tā kāi táng pò dù. hù wèi men zhù qǐ le zuì hòu de fáng xiàn, shì sǐ bǎo hù tā men guó wáng de yí tǐ, dà duō rén dōu shù shǒu jiù qín. wèi le bǎo mìng, tā men gěi dí fāng ràng le lù. zhàn zhēng zhī hòu liú chuán zhe hěn duō bēi shāng de gù shì, huò xǔ yǒu xiē shì zhēn de. hā luó dé de ài rén biàn shì qí yī, yī dí sī sī wàng nèi kè, shī héng biàn yě zhōng, shì tú biàn bié tā sǐ qù de zhàng fū. tā shēn shàng de yìn jì, zhǐ yǒu tā cái rèn de chū. wǒ men què dìng de shì shí shì zài nà chǎng zhàn dòu zhōng, yīng gé lán bàn shù de guì zú mìng sàng dāng chǎng. |