Normans load their boats before crossing the English Channel, 1066. Detail from the Bayeux tapestry, eleventh century. Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Normandy, France.

Normans load their boats before crossing the English Channel, 1066. Detail from the Bayeux tapestry, eleventh century. Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Normandy, France.