![]() ![]() Swanton’s translation :p.77 of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E “. There also was taken the war-flag, which they called the RAVEN.” “And in the winter of this same year the brother of Ingwar and Healfden landed in Wessex, in Devonshire, with three and twenty ships, and there was he slain, and eight hundred men with him, and forty of his army. But Harold was struck, and cut down by a Norman sword when William's knights burst through the Huscarles to trample down the Dragon standard and Harold's banner of the Fighting Man." :p.180 but we are unable to find anything that this reference to a dragon standard could be based on. The idea of a 'Dragon of Wessex' is an invention of E. For perceiving that the Danes were fighting with more than ordinary vigour, he quitted his royal station which, as was wont, he had taken between the dragon and the ensign called the Standard.” :p.194 Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum c.1129-c.1154.ĪD 752 Battle of Burford “Ethelhun who led the West-Saxons, bearing the royal standard, a golden dragon, transfixed the standard-bearer of the enemy.” :p.130 AD 1016 Battle of Assandun “King Edmund distinguished himself for his valour."Hic arripiens signum quod apud eo habebatur sacrum, leonis atque draconis desuper aquilae volantis insignitum effigie. About Witikind, an adversary of Charlemagne. ![]()
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