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"…...that there might be a perpetual memorial of the royal character of this holy man [King Oswald], they hung up over the monument his banner of gold and purple."
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Osthryth, queen of the Mercians [Project Gutenberg 2011]
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==Late Roman Draco Standards==
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File:Banner St. Gallen Cod.22 140.jpg | c.883-900AD Carolingian <br> St. Gallen Cod.22 140
File:Banner Bayeux Tapestry 71a.jpg | c.1076AD English <br> Bayeux Tapestry
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"Hic arripiens signum quod apud eo habebatur sacrum, leonis atque draconis desuper aquilae volantis insignitum effigie ..."
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About Witikind, an adversary of Charlemagne. [Oakshott 1963:p178]
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"... be the end would have been different. 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." [Oakshott 1963:p.180]
