Daily History Picture: Killing Knight? May 20, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures , trackback
Not sure what is going on here, but my guess is a peasant is finishing off a knight, possible with the knight’s sword.
23 May 2016, lots of emails pointing out what should have been obvious. This is David on Goliath. D’oh. E.g. Tarcangel:
Your May 20, 2016 drawing of a “peasant killing a knight” with his own sword is David killing Goliath. This is clear because David is wearing a sling at his belt, and of course, the size difference between the two. David killed Goliath with a stone from his sling, and then used Goliath’s sword to cut off Goliath’s head.
This meanwhile is Marge with the source:
Then I realised that there is a manuscript reference for the picture, and it’s one of the British Library’s digitised manuscripts, part of a three volume Romanesque bible.
The scene is f.10r – the starting initial for the Book of Samuel/Kings, which contains the story of David and Goliath.
