The Life of King Edward
who rests at Westminster
attributed to a monk of St Bertin
Vita AEwardi Regis
edited and translated by Frank Barlow
download pdf here [no introduction]
http://x0b.de/The_Life_of_King_Edward.pdf
“And who will write that Humber, vast and swollen
With raging seas, where namesake kings had fought,
Has dyed the ocean waves for miles around
With Viking gore, while Heaven mourns the crime?
What madman write of this, at which the mind
Grows faint and ears are shocked? …
If you will not describe King Gruffydd’s wars
Or River Ouse with corpses choked, you’ll paint
King Edward fair in form and worth, what he
Did in his life and what when dying said.”
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