Note the cloven hooves on the unicorns. That's a detail modern depictions often get wrong. Everybody who knows anything about unicorns will tell you their hooves are cloven.
That's because we think of unicorns as horses, but in the Middle Ages and Renaissance they thought of them as goats. Cue the stories of unicorns falling asleep in the lap of virgins.
I'm wondering, since they keep mentioning the mysterious "AE" letters woven everywhere with a reversed E, wouldn't it actually make more sense to look at the tapestries back to front (as they do with the one showing the hunters entering the wood)?
That way the E would be the right way around and the letters would read "EA". Equally mysterious, but at least graphically correct.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadThat way the E would be the right way around and the letters would read "EA". Equally mysterious, but at least graphically correct.