Goffredo Malaterra

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“Whirling his sword, like a scythe mowing down the green grass, corpses lay heaped round him, like the trees of a dense forest uptorn by the wind.”

“Normannus Hugo, cognomento Tudebufen (Tuebœuf, Kill-ox) ... nudo pugno equum in cervice percutiens uno ictu, quasi mortuum dejecit.”