Note 8 — Chapter XVIII
Edgar Taylor translation
This seems further explained afterwards by the description of the English knight's helmet:
Un helme aveit tot fait de fust, Ke colp el chief ne réceust; A sez dras l'aveit atachié, Et environ son col lacié.
But the text is often so imperfect, and at such variance from the ordinary rules of Norman French grammar, that it is frequently hard to be certain as to the fidelity of a translation.