Note 600 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051.
Reading edition
See vol. i. p. 189. The whole feeling between France and Normandy is best summed up in the passage from Wace referred to in p. 201, especially the lines,
“Sovent les unt medlé al Rei,
Sovent dient: Sire, por kei
Ne tollez la terre as bigoz?
A vos ancessors e as nos
La tolirent lor ancessor,
Ki par mer vindrent robéor.”
The feeling is thus represented as mainly a popular one.