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{{Quote|50|*About Witikind, an adversary of Charlemagne:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Hic arripiens signum quod apud eo habebatur sacrum, leonis atque draconis desuper aquilae volantis insignitum effigie ..."|About Witikind, an adversary of Charlemagne. [OAKESHOTT 1960:p178]}}
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==The Viking 'Raven Banner'==
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File:Banner Bayeux Tapestry 53bjpg | c.1076AD English <br> Bayeux Tapestry
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===The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle=== (Ingram 1912)
*AD 878
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“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. There also was taken the war-flag, which they called the RAVEN.” [INGRAM 1912]<br>
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Swanton’s translation [SWANTON1996:p.77] of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E <span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“.. and there the banner which they called ‘Raven', was taken.” </span> It is not however mentioned in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A.
 
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