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Sword-Dance

Sword-Dance.jpg The Pel Quintain—XIV. CenturyThumbnailsSoldiers - 12 th CenturyThe Pel Quintain—XIV. CenturyThumbnailsSoldiers - 12 th CenturyThe Pel Quintain—XIV. CenturyThumbnailsSoldiers - 12 th CenturyThe Pel Quintain—XIV. CenturyThumbnailsSoldiers - 12 th CenturyThe Pel Quintain—XIV. CenturyThumbnailsSoldiers - 12 th Century

This drawing represents two men, equipped in martial habits, and each of them armed with a sword and a shield, engaged in a combat; the performance is enlivened by the sound of a horn; the musician acts in a double capacity, and is, together with a female assistant, dancing round them to the cadence of the music; and probably the actions of the combatants were also regulated by the same measure.