“That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].”
On the Battle of Hastings. (M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24.)
Wilhelm von Malmesbury war ein englischer Geschichtsschreiber, Sohn eines Normannen und einer Engländerin, und Mönch in Malmesbury Abbey. Wikipedia
“That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].”
On the Battle of Hastings. (M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24.)
Gesta Regum Anglorum of 1125. (Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 56.)
Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125), quoted in M. J. Cohen and John Major (eds.), History in Quotations (Cassell, 2004), p. 160