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Hunters
a-Warring
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Imagine for a moment that your
country is in political turmoil, led
by an inept and cruel leader whom
you probably don’t like but prefer to his
opponents. Imagine that they have invited
a foreign general to bring troops and take
over power. You’re determined to resist but
you’re surrounded by country yokels.
They mean well and are eager for a scrap,
but your opponents are heavily armed and
exceedingly well trained, and your lads are
most certainly not.
If you can imagine this then you know
what it was like to stand in the shoes of
A depiction from a hunting scene
in the mid-thirteenth-century
Maciejowski Bible (Morgan
Bible). Besides the use of
longbows, the offer being given
to the seated lord reflects the
strict guidelines for the division
of the spoils after a hunt. The
deer has been “undone.”