"The blue water, smitten by many oars, might be seen foaming far and wide" wrote a medieval monk who watched a Viking fleet set sail. Above: Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the ...
The Vikings were defeated but the Normans succeeded ... is captured in the Bayeux Tapestry. The first thing to say about the Bayeux Tapestry is that it’s not a tapestry at all.