Le Serment (Sacramentum)

The hinge of the whole tapestry: Harold swears his oath to William, both hands on the reliquaries, the court ranged behind in a velvet trap closing. Everything English that follows will be called perjury.

The Oath

Slow-burn baroque garage, solemn and courtly and quietly sinister, an organ tightening one degree at a time.

Note

UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTUM FECIT WILLELMO DUCI. 'Souris pour les seigneurs en rang.' Smile for the lords, in a row.