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Goffredo Malaterra
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“Normannus Hugo, cognomento Tudebufen (Tuebœuf, Kill-ox) ... nudo pugno equum in cervice percutiens uno ictu, quasi mortuum dejecit.”
Goffredo Malaterra (1100–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 1, ch. 9, in Muratori, Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, vol. 5, p. 552. Paraphrased in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1882), p. 197. Compare: "Another takes by …
“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.”
Goffredo Malaterra (1100–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 2, ch. 30, in Script. Rer. Italicarum, vol. 5, p. 567. Paraphrased in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (1882), p. 197. "In Sicily, Roger, fighting fifty thousand Saracens at the head of onl…