The oldest comic strip in the world is in the city of Bayeux in Normandy. It is exhibited in an impressive museum, where the whole story is told with the aid of light shows, films and posters before one is let into the hall where the actual masterpiece hangs the long exhibition case is illuminated by a great number of spotlights, otherwise the room is dark.
At the entrance you are supplied with head phones so you have a “text” to the pictures (English, German or French according to your own choice). The narration is controlled by electronic impulses. There are 58 pictures total, sewed on a piece of linen, which is 70 meters long. This enormous piece of handwork was fabricated in the 11th century. The narrators make it clear to everybody that William the Conqueror had every right to invade England and destroy the English army in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. For he had been cheated by the English King Harald, who had promised to make Vilhelm King of England but crowned himself instead. A lot happens in these pictures: warships are being built and loaded with weapons, horses, soldiers and lots of fine French wine, so that the Normans are being equipped to the voyage over the channel. There is eating and drinking by enormous parties and there is fighting so wounded people and animals are whirled up in the air, and the dead are lying spread around in the battlefield. The series ends very abruptly: William’s men kill Harold and conquer England, messengers set forth - and here the tapestry ends. There is no actual ending, where one e.g. sees the crowning of William. One does not know if it has never been completed or if the last part has been worn off over the years.
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