A Modern Bayeux Tapestry

During the SCA Autumn Wars this year, I snapped the following photograph.  Riders are beginning to line up to escort the Queen, shown to the right, in the processional into court.  I really think there is slight resemblane to some of the medieval paintings, maybe?

Bayeux Tapestry

 

 

(Wikipedia, BayeuxTapestryScene08)

 

Although Norman, the Bayeux Tapestry dates from the “Viking” period (approximately 850 to 1100 AD).  It illustrates the events leading up to the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy.  This 230 foot long embroidered cloth was probably made in England in the 1070s.  Among the 50 scenes of the cloth, several horses are depicted in a tolt.

 

Have Icelandic Will Travel

Photo: Cornell University Library

In the early years, the Icelandic horse was the sole form of land transportation for goods and riders in fair weather and bad, across ice and lava fields.  They carried mail, timber, hay, and trade goods by horse pack. 

Taken around 1900, the first photo shows an Icelandic pack train crossing the bridge over Elliðaá, near Reykjavík.

The second photo shows Ponies Fording a River in Iceland.  





From Alex-Tweedie, E. (1894). A Girl's Ride in Iceland,