How the Bayeux Tapestry has been corrupted!
You're thinking that the headline is pretty strong and may be even clickbait. I'm going to show you why I think the Establishment has lost the plot and it all begins over 200 years ago.....
The Tapestry was scheduled to be displayed at the Louvre in Paris in 1803/04. Up until then it couldn't have been an object worthy of study but some French historians decided they would study it and needed a quick way to reference particular points of the Tapestry.
The historians came up with an easy way to reference the Tapestry by aligning "scenes" with the Latin inscriptions which seem to align with the illustrations below as seen below for Scene 50
By https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=190988073
However, the one sentence per illustration breaks down when the Tapestry tries to depict the Battle. Here's Scene 52
By https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=191000051
By https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=191000908
Here's the content descriptors.
For the first part A part of scene 52 of the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting men battling
For the Second part A part of scene 52 of the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting Leofwine and Gyrth, brothers of King Harold, falling
And just for good measure here's Scene 53
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