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:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">White and blue and vermilion were the gonfalons they bore." [BACON 1914]

==Late Roman Draco Standards==

"... 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." [OAKESHOTT 1960:p.180]

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==The Viking 'Raven Banner'==

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==Harald Hardrade's 'Land-waster' Banner==

Also known as Land-ravager. 'Landøyðan' and '' in Icelandic. <br>

::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Eystein Orre came up at this moment from the ships with the men who followed him, and all were clad in armour. Then Eystein got '''King Harald's banner Land-ravager'''; and now was, for the third time, one of the sharpest of conflicts, in which many Englishmen fell, and they were near to taking flight." [LAING 1907]

==King Harold’s ‘Fighting Man’ banner==

King Harold’s personal banner is described by three sources although only two of them mention the ‘Fighting Man’.

::<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“When Harold had made all ready, and given his orders, he came into the midst of the English, and dismounted by the side of the standard, Leofwin and Gurth, his brothers, were with him; and around him he had barons enough, as he stood by his gonfanon, which was in truth a noble one, sparkling with gold and precious stones. After the victory William sent it to the apostle, to prove and commemorate his great conquest and glory.” [TAYLOR 1837]</span><br>

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