 | Wace - 1837 - 368 pàgines
...having in his company a hundred men, furnished with various arms. He wielded a northern hatchet 3 , with the blade a full foot long; and was well armed...astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Rogier de Montgomeri came galloping up, with his lance set, and heeding not the long handled axe 4,... | |
 | Wace - 1837 - 368 pàgines
...thronged most, he came bounding on swifter than the stag, Hache noresche.' See note before at page 175. many Normans falling before him and his company. He...astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Rogier de Montgomeri came galloping up, with his lance set, and heeding not the long handled axe 4... | |
 | 1837 - 756 pàgines
...before him and his company. He rushed straight upon a Norman who was armed and riding on a war horse, and tried with his hatchet of steel to cleave his...whether the Englishman struck another blow ; but the Noruians who saw the stroke were astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Rogier de Montgomeri... | |
 | 1837 - 728 pàgines
...before him And his company. He rushed straight upon a Norman who was armed and riding on a war horse, and tried with his hatchet of steel to cleave his...driving through the horse's neck down to the ground, so thai both horse and master fell together to the earth. I know not whether the Englishman struck another... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1856 - 214 pàgines
...company. He rushed straight upon a Norman, who was armed, and riding on a war-horse, and tried with a hatchet of steel to cleave his helmet ; but the blow...miscarried, and the sharp blade glanced down before the saddle-bow, driving through the horse's neck down to the ground, so that both horse and master fell... | |
 | 1863 - 182 pàgines
...before him and his company. He rushed straight upon a Norman who was armed and riding on a war horse, and tried with his hatchet of steel to cleave his...astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Rogier de Montgomeri came galloping up, with his lance set, and heeding not the long handled axe, which... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1885 - 248 pàgines
...cleave his helmet; but the blow miscarried, and the sharp blade glanced down before the saddle-bow, driving through the horse's neck down to the ground,...astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Eoger <le Mongorueri came galloping up, with his lance set. and heeding not the long-handled axe, which... | |
 | 1887 - 832 pàgines
...cleave his helmet; but the blow miscarried, and the sharp blade glanced down before the saddle-bow, driving through the horse's neck down to the ground,...whether the Englishman struck another blow; but the Normaus who saw the stroke were astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Hoger de Mongomcri... | |
 | Archibald Wilberforce - 1899 - 536 pàgines
...cleave his helmet; but the blow miscarried, and the sharp blade glanced down before the saddle-bow, driving through the horse's neck down to the ground,...astonished, and about to abandon the assault, when Eoger de Montgomeri came galloping up, with his lance set, and heeding not the long-handled ax which... | |
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... bold, and of noble carriage. In the front of the battle where the Normans thronged most, he came bounding on swifter than the stag, many Normans falling before him and his company. He rushed straight upon a Norman who was armed and riding on a... 
