Note 1279 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)

Wace (12478–12522) is very full on the ministrations of the two Bishops, and on the devotions of the army, both during the night and on the morning before the battle. The vow is thus described (12485–12490);

“Por ço ke samedi esteit,

Ke la bataille estre debveit,

Unt Normanz pramis è voé,

Si com li cler l’orent loé,

Ke à cet jor mez s’il veskeient,

Char ne saunc ne maingereint.”