“That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].”

—  William of Malmesbury

On the Battle of Hastings. (M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24.)

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