Harley Roll Y 6, Roundel 16v, On the verso of Roundels 14-18 are...

Guthlac (674–715) was a saint from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. He was a warrior in the Mercian borderlands who, after nine years of fighting, had a religious conversion and became a hermit in Crowland, in Lincolnshire, where he lived in solitude on an island in the middle of a marsh. This series was probably intended to have stretched along the length of the roll, but was discontinued for unknown reasons; it has been suggested that the drawings were designs for wall paintings. The subject of the drawings is as follows: Beginning on the verso of Roundel 18: [scene unknown]; Hannah praying (almost entirely illegible); Elkanah and Hannah presenting Samuel to Eli; the servants of Eli's sons wielding flesh-hooks; Samuel ministering to Eli, and Hannah bringing Samuel a coat; God calling to Samuel; a battle between the Israelites and the Philistines; the Philistines taking the Ark of the Covenant, and Eli's sons being slain; the death of Eli; the Philistines bringing the Ark into the house of the pagan god, Dagon; the Philistines returning to find the icon Dagon broken into pieces; the Philistines returning the Ark to the Israelites in a cart along with a trespass-offering of five golden mice and five golden emerods (haemorrhoids); the Ark returning to Bethshemesh at the time of the wheat-harvest.