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There are many ships depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. They are Anglo-Saxon and Norman models, but they would have been of very similar construction to Scandinavian ships at this date, and we can learn a lot about the decoration of the ships from…

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry illustrating the Norman construction of ships for the invasion of Anglo-Saxon England. For the full tapestry see here