Ulgham Saxon and two Norman stone windows are built into the current church walls. In the north aisle is an extraordinary stone relief originally thought to be a Norman knight on horseback apparently protecting a lady from two birds shown above her shoulder, is in fact of much earlier Viking or even pagan Anglian origin; the figure depicted on the left is clearly Odin, shown here in classic representation as cloaked and hooded with his two raven companions Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory) on either shoulder. The creature depicted on the right is Odin's eight-legged horse (Sleipnir). The weathered nature of
Eight-legged essay Eight-legged essay The eight-legged essay () was a style of essay that exam-takers wrote in order to pass the imperial examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. The eight-legged essay was required for those test takers in these civil service tests to demonstrate their merits for government service, often focusing on Confucian thought and knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, in relation to governmental ideals. Test takers could not write in innovative or creative ways, but needed to conform to the standards of the eight-legged essay. Various skills were examined, including the ability to write coherently