ultra-grotesque

Updated: May 4, 2025

Perhaps the most interesting and important scenes are: first, when Harold takes the oath of allegiance to William, with his hands leaning on two ark-like shrines, full of the relics plundered from churches; next, the awful catastrophe of the malfosse, where men and horses, Norman and Saxon, are seen rolling together in the ditch; and, lastly, the ultra-grotesque tableaux of stripping the wounded after the battle.

Henry Blackburn - Normandy Picturesque