Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture The Norman Conquest and the Media
- Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy c.1000
- Clergy in the Diocese of Hereford in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century
- Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale
- The Vita Ædwardi Regis: The Hagiographer as Insider
- The Warenne View of the Past, 1066–1203
- Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles?
- 1088 – William II and the Rebels
- The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered
- Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou
R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture The Norman Conquest and the Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture The Norman Conquest and the Media
- Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy c.1000
- Clergy in the Diocese of Hereford in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century
- Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale
- The Vita Ædwardi Regis: The Hagiographer as Insider
- The Warenne View of the Past, 1066–1203
- Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles?
- 1088 – William II and the Rebels
- The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered
- Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou
Summary
William the First was the first of our kings
Not counting Ethelreds, Egberts and things,
And he had himself crowned and anointed and blest
In Ten-Sixty-I-Needn't-Tell-You-The Rest.
But being a Norman, King William the First
By the Saxons he conquered was hated and cursed,
And they planned and they plotted far into the night,
Which William could tell by the candles alight.
Then William decided these rebels to quell
By ringing the Curfew, a sort of a bell,
And if any Saxon was found out of bed
After eight o'clock sharp, it was Off with His Head.
So at BONG NUMBER ONE they all started to run
Like a warren of rabbits upset by a gun;
At BONG NUMBER TWO they were all in a stew,
Flinging cap after tunic and hose after shoe;
At BONG NUMBER THREE they were bare to the knee,
Undoing the doings as quick as could be;
At BONG NUMBER FOUR they were stripped to the core,
And pulling on nightshirts the wrong side before;
At BONG NUMBER FIVE they were looking alive,
And bizzing and buzzing like bees in a hive;
At BONG NUMBER SIX they gave themselves kicks,
Tripping over the rushes to snuff out the wicks;
At BONG NUMBER SEVEN, from Durham to Devon,
They slipped up a prayer to Our Father in Heaven;
And at BONG NUMBER EIGHT it was fatal to wait,
So with hearts beating all at a terrible rate,
In a deuce of state, I need hardly relate,
They jumped BONG into bed like a bull at a gate.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 26Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004