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Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou

Note 8 — Chapter XVI

Edgar Taylor translation

This circumstance is also told by William of Poitiers. In the Estoire de Seint Ædward le rei the scene of the reversed hauberk is thus described;

Li ducs, ki s'arma tost après, Sun hauberc endosse envers. Dist ki l'arma, "Seit tort u dreit Verruns ke li ducs rois seit," Li ducs, ki la raisun ot, Un petit surrist au mot, Dist, "Ore seit a la devise Celui ki le mund justise!"

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