The 1865 book should be ...Moreover, a broadsheet titled "The Soldier's Prayer-Book" which recounts the same story as the 1948 song "Deck of Cards" appears in an 1865 book about the history of playing cards. French versions of the tale were printed in 1778 and 1809.
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Such important events might have been occasionally also connected to some sort of playing card production.Read Renaissance and Early Modern festival books on your desktop now
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Statistics: Posted by Huck — 04 Oct 2023, 09:41
The reason I think this could potentially be related to the depiction of RW II of swords is because the generally understood meaning of the card is, of course, a dilemma of being presented with two difficult, equally weighing, choices. In Le Morte d'Arthur, the two choices asked of Arthur by the Lady of the Lake are symbolic of this (and it could maybe be her depicted, in front of a lake, on the card).“I ask the head of the knight that hath won the sword, or else the damsel's head that brought it”
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"Then Achilles’ son took a full goblet all of gold in his hands and raised on high the libation for his dead father … ‘O son of Peleus, my father, receive from me this libation which summons up the dead, and be appeased. Come, so that you may drink a virgin’s pure dark blood which the army and I give to you' ... "
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