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

Note 6 — Chapter XXV

Edgar Taylor translation

Wace had, in narrating Swain's success in overrunning England, i. 327, observed upon the facility afforded to an invader by the scarcity of fortified posts:

N'i aveit gaires fortelesce, Ne tur de pierre ne bretesce, Se n'esteit en vieille cité, Ki close fust d'antiquité. Maiz li barunz de Normendie, Quant il orent la seignorie, Firent chastels e fermetez, Turs de pierre, murs e fossez.

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