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A Caucasian & a Negro Swordsman Fighting
Vercelli, Italy, about 1040
Picture Source: reddit
An extract from Court Records and Cartoons by Peter Koch pp414-415 in Historical Dialogue Analysis edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz, Franz Lebsanft, 1999.
Vercelli (Piemont); about 1040 (Mosaic from the church of S. Maria Maggiore)
This portrays two fighters duelling with shields and swords. The utterances they shout at each other are reproduced in written form: fol! 'idiot' on the lefthand edge of the picture and fel! 'villain' on the righthand.