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The first [KNIGHT], cleaving [HAROLD'S] breast through the shield with his point, drenched the earth with a gushing
torrent of blood;
the second smote off his head below the protection of the helmet and
the third pierced the inwards of his belly with his lance;
the fourth hewed off his thigh and bore away the severed limb:
the ground held the body thus destroyed.
Guy of Amiens (ATTRIBUTED) The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio Circa 1068 |
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