38 the Apostle oi God.”" This practice, of mustering their soldiers under religious banners, was followed by western nations. Some of the Danish-Norwegian coins, minted in England, in the tenth century, figs. 71 and 73, have upon them the device of a triangular banner, enclosing a cross, and… … Fig. 73. with the Holy Spi¬ rit descending from heaven to earth, fig. 74, confirm the religious symbolism of, and coincide in form with, the early Anglo-Banish examples. The Bayeux Tapestry supplies curious Fi 74_ * Ockley’s History of the Saracens, p. 241. Fig. 71. Iicverse of a coin of Anlaf (or…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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