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Original embroidery · Scene 15
Public domainThe Norman Feast and Bishop Odo
Embroidered Latin titulus: « HIC FECERUN PRANDIUM / ET HIC EPISCOPUS CIBUM ET POTUM BENEDICIT »
At Hastings, camp cooks roast skewered meats over open fires. William and his chief lords sit at a curved dining table while Bishop Odo of Bayeux solemnly blesses the meal before battle.
This fragment belongs to a continuous narrative: the upper and lower registers extend the main story with a bestiary, decorative motifs and symbolic echoes.