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    http://www.domesdaybook.net/helpfiles/hs2540.htm

    Latin, stalrus, constabularius. The constable was an honourable officer in the royal household, later in the households of the higher nobility, normally a high-ranking noble in his own right. Like most household offices, that of constable ultimately derives from the Carolingian court; but their recorded history in England has been the subject of debate. Some historians have argued that the Anglo-Saxon staller (stalrus) should be distinguished from the Anglo-Norman constable (constabularius), while others believe that the two are identical. According to the former view, the staller was a high-ranking Scandinavian officer, imported into England during the reign of King Canute. His nearest equivalent would have been the continental seneschal, not the constable. But the evidence for a Scandinavian origin is late and untrustworthy and the first certain references to stallers occur under Edward the Confessor, who may therefore have introduced them from Normandy. In that case, the staller was the equivalent of the Frankish 'count of the stable' (comes stabuli), or constable, one of the principal military officers of the royal household, with particular responsibility for the royal stud. The Domesday evidence tends to support this latter view. One staller, Bondi (or Boding), is described alternatively as stalrus or constabularius (BKM 12.29. 17,9. 27,1-2. BDF 57,4); two others, Ansgar and Eadnoth, are known to have played important military roles; and a fourth, Robert son of Wymarc, owned a group of estates charged (unusually) with supplying large quantities of horse-fodder (LIN 12,43; 47-49). Domesday Book also reveals that the constables of late Anglo-Saxon England were among the wealthiest of the higher nobility. One was an earl, another the ancestor of the Mandevilles, earls of Essex in the following century. Whatever the immediate origin of the title constable, however, the office itself must be older than the eleventh century; it may have developed from the 'king's horse thegns', first recorded in the reign of Alfred the Great. For further detail, see L.M. Larson, The king's Household in England before the Norman Conquest (1904); Katharin Mack, 'The staller: administrative innovation in the reign of Edward the Confessor', Journal of Medieval History, vol. 12 (1986), pages 123-34; R.H.C. Davis, The medieval warhorse: origin, development and redevelopment (1989); John F.A. Mason, 'Barons and their officials in the later eleventh century', Anglo-Norman Studies, vol. 13 (1991), pages 243-62; and David Crouch, The image of aristocracy in Britain, 1000-1300 (1992).
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    Quote Originally Posted by herosrest
    Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

    This link displays a mounted norman warrior http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/Images/knight.jpg

    Previously l was able only to discern the face like image within the willow tree photograph. There is more.... Keep the mounted knight picture in your minds eye and study the area beneath the face in the willow. Discernable is , yes, a horses head (hehe) in fact the entire animal walking towards you.


    Here - see what l mean?..

    l strolled up past the tree yesterday.. beside the brook which passes under the willow tree a duck was rested down enjoying the rays... quack quack.
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    They call it Haloperidol Hero, why don't you try some, lots even.

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    l've experience of that horror 'medicine'. Horror - it is. My Mum ended her time diagnosed as suffering Altzheimers disease. She was a 'walker' - on her feet strolling around all day. For a period of months she was with a private nursing home. Despite their 'duty of care' she would wander off at every opportunity and cause panic because she was missing. Serenace, over prescribed was part of the solution to the nursing homes dilemma - together with one of those elementary school type chairs with fold up table. Despite daily visits to take strolls l could see her will to exist being sapped away along with her dignity. l don't blame the the nursing home, mums condition was a nightmare for them. BUT - That drug (Haloperidol/serenace) is pure EVIL.
    So in response to yer quip.. keep it all for yourself, your welcome to it all.
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    What are you going on about hero? More important, why is this thread back?
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    Quote Originally Posted by herosrest
    keep it all for yourself, your welcome to it all.
    Thanks I will, yum !

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    Anyways- back to my picture puzzle..............


    Now l can see an individual mounted upon a steed - you all must too.... if you look long and hard enough. Things can move on ... a haunted willow tree... ?? OK - Saxon mythology - willow trees.....................

    Stuff: Custom & Legend Ancient legend tells of Alder and Willow becoming trees of the water-ways, the rivers, lakes ,streams and ponds which give life to the land. At a great feast in honour of the fertility deities when all life-forms of the natural world celebrated together, the Alder and Willow stood apart from the other trees, gazing longingly into the waters of the flood. The Gods were angered by their lack of interest and declared that as they had shown their preference, there they should remain, binding them to gaze forever into the waters. However by such actions the Gods gave a great gift to the land, for as King and Queen of the waters the alder and willow reign supreme, enhancing the process of water move-ment which ensures the life of the land is continued .In ancient Greece " Cronos " was represented by an Alder tree. One of his epithets was Fearinus, which translated means, Of the dawn of the year ,i.e.,the Spring , when the Sun ,Wind and Rain bring the growth of plant life .The Irish/Gaelic ogham name for Alder is ...Fearn. In Norse legend, March was known as " The lengthening month of the waking Alder ", In Norse countries this specific time was called Lenct, and was a period of natural fasting, as the last of the winter provisions ran low. When it was adopted by the church and used for religious ideals, this time of fasting became ...Lent. In Irish legend the first human male was created from alder, As the first female was created from rowan . Alder was history regarded as a faerie, tree , able to grant entry to the faerie realms Itis also a tree which shows strong associations with the elements of life ( water,fire air and earth, almost as thou it were an axis round which they flowed and formed.
    Alder Symbols Goddess;.... Morrigan, Moon Goddess of the sea. Queen of fate. She was capable of shape-shifting into a Raven, and was often invoked during battle to bring death to the enemy.She is assosciated with the sometimes uncomforatable, unpredictable and firghtening aspects of feminine energy. She was the basis for Morgan Le Faye, who is the Goddess who conveyed King Arthur's body across the sea to Avalon at his death, and Mary Magdalene. She is associated with the letter N, nion, Ash. The ash is sacred to Poseidon, god of the sea. It is considered the tree of sea-power and the power resident in water. This moon usually occurs in March, the month of floods.
    ***** willow -How ***** Willow got the name. According to an old Polish legend, many springtimes ago a mother cat was crying at the bank of the river in which her kittens were drowning. The willows at the river's edge longed to help her, so they swept their long graceful branches into the waters to rescue the tiny kittens who had fallen into the river while chasing butterflies. The kittens gripped on tightly to their branches and were safely brought to shore. Each springtime since, goes the legend, the willow branches sprout tiny fur-like buds at their tips where the tiny kittens once clung. Another version goes: A farmer, annoyed that his barn cat had just given birth to another litter of kittens, decided that his farm had enough mouths to feed. He put the newborn babies in a feed sack, went down to the riverbank and threw the kittens in the water to be rid of them. In the turbulence of the fast moving river, the tie on the sack became loosened which set the kittens adrift. On the riverbank witnessing this horrible sight, the distressed mother cat wept loud and pitifully. A cluster of willow bushes, along the riverbank downstream, heard her cries and in sympathy held out their branches like mooring lines. This enabled the desperately floundering kittens to grab hold as they drifted by. Now in mythology, when the life we are assigned on earth is doomed but because the spirit is eternal, myth dictates that the spirit can live on but must be in an another earthly form. Because the kittens were destined to die, but their spirits were saved, they then became part of the willows which had saved them. Ever since then, in Spring, the willow-without-a-flower decks itself out in gentle velvet buds that feel to the fingers like the silky coat of a small cat. These buds are known today as catkins and remarkably, in every country, these soft willow trees are named after cats.
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    http://www.lhi.org.uk/projects_direc...d_crowned.html

    "King Harold, unconquerable except by death".
    This man was everything the Scots would love William Wallace to be and more. He was OUR Braveheart who died at our Alamo. A true patriot who put his people and his country before everything else and displayed many of the qualities and attributes that we hold dear in our great nation. He took everything that fate could throw at him and responded with determination, an iron will and true English courage. But in the end not even this was enough. After the battle Harold's sons and daughters fled abroad. His daughter Gytha had a son, Harold who went on to become the Grand Prince of Kiev. This Russian Harold had a daughter called Ingibiorg who later married Cnut Lavard of Denmark and bore him a son who became King Valdemar of Denmark from whom the current queens of both Denmark and Great Britain are descended. In this way the blood of King Harold Godwineson, runs again in the veins of the rulers of England. Every year on the anniversary of his death proud English men and women still show their respect by placing flowers on the spot where the last truly English King fell in battle, protecting his country and his people.
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    Marvelous....almost 100 posts and this thread is STILL going nowhere. Interesting history, though. One can almost lay the unification of the seven Ancient Kingdoms at William's feet.

    What's this have to do with an imagined horse in the tree? That's Lewis Carroll stuff.
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    First of all, your little diagrammed pic thingy is too small to see anything in, and second... What does this random horse guy have to do with the tree. It's obviously not an image of HIM in the tree...
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    l decided sometime back that dates were the key to what's what...
    l grabbed the piccie a week or so after the battle of Hastings give or take 938 years. The path running across the picture behind the willow - leads over a brook to St.Mary's Parish church. One of the country's oldest sites. lt's quite a place. Peaceful and steeped in history. The Saxons were hooked into Rome, bigtime.
    'William the *******' also.

    The picture is original, again, go to the very first post, right click - select properties - and check the camera stamp of details and date etc.

    The Saxon who held this area was important to King Harold as 'Staller' and survived the battle, although wounded.
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    u have too much time............

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    what are we talking about again???

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    A man on a horse.


    u have too much time............ having none is hard work.
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