Note 1467 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)
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Ib. 14055;
“Li colps virent granz en l’escu
E li helme out quassé véu.”
Will. Malms, iii. 244. “Et proculdubio divina ilium manus protexit, ut nihil sanguinis ex ejus corpore hostis hauriret, quamquam ilium tot jaculis impeteret.” If we can believe Guy of Amiens (555), William had killed two thousand Englishmen with his own hand;
“Dux ibi per numerum duo millia misit ad Orcum,
Exceptis aliis millibus innumeris.”