Note 1200 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
Reading edition
Wid. Amb. 159;
“Dux Normannorum cum Gallis atque Britannis
Invasit terram, vastat et igne cremat.
Millia si quæris, tibi dicere nemo valebit:
Quod mare fert pisces, tot sibi sunt equites;
Et veluti stellas cœli numerare nequires,
Ejus sic acies nec numerare vales.”
“French,” “Franci” in the Tapestry, is the only name which takes in the whole of William’s army as thus described.