TWO scholars are arguing the toss over the number of penises shown on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Oxford academic Prof George Garnett claims he identified 93 todgers in the depiction of .
But Anglo-Saxon nudity expert Dr Christopher Monk insists there are actually 94 — saying his rival missed the pecker of a running man in the border of .
Dr Monk told the Extra Podcast: “I’m in no doubt that the appendage is a depiction of male genitalia — the missed penis, shall we say?”;
“The detail is surprisingly anatomically fulsome.”;
But Professor Garnett remains firm in his belief it is a sword or scabbard dangling beneath the man’s legs — because on the end it has a yellow blob not seen in the other penises.
The tapestry records the events leading to the .
In Prof Garnett’s 2018 tallywhacker tally, he found five on men and 88 on horses.
Most were in a state of arousal, while the whopper on William’s steed was seen as a symbol of his great virility.
On the podcast, he said his work was serious as it gave insights into the mind of the tapestry designers.
He added: “Medieval people were not unsophisticated, dim-witted individuals. Quite the opposite.”;
