DAN JONES "Vorsten van Albion"

 

DAN JONES schreef een schitterend boek 

maar verwees nooit naar

zijn illustere voorganger WALTER SCOTT,

auteur van "Ivanhoe", 1820.

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ANGLO-SAXONS AND NORMANS

"De hele nacht van 12 oktober 1247 flakkerden de kaarsen in de kamer van koning Hendrik III. 

Het was de vooravond van het feest van de translatie van de heilige koning Edward the Confessor, 

nu de heiligste koning uit de Engelse geschiedenis en naamgenoot van Hendriks oudste zoon, 

de latere koning Edward I. (...) 

Dit was koning Hendrik III's visioen van het koningschap, 

een ambtsvervulling die de regering van zijn voorgangers welbewust in vroomheid overtrof en

 die door de verering voor Edward the Confessor de lijn van het Engelse koningschap weer terugvoerde 

op de tijd van vóór Willem de Veroveraar. 

Net als koning Hendrik I knoopte koning Hendrik III met zijn eigen heerschappij aan bij 

het oude Saksische koningschap en eerde zo de Engelse wortels ervan,

 en niet alleen de perfectionering onder de Normandiërs en Plantagenets". (p.278, 280)

the same theme in "Ivanhoe" by WALTER SCOTT : 

"A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility

 and the sufferings of the inferior classes 

arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy. 

Four generations had not suffered to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons,

 or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hostile races,

 one of which still felt the elation of triumph, while the other groaned 

under all the consequences of defeat. 

The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility 

by the event of the battle of Hastings..." (p.2)

WALTER SCOTT "Ivanhoe"

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFTER THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, 1066, NORMAN FRENCH ENTERS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

 

"A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility and the sufferings of the inferior classes arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy. Four generations had not suffered to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hostile races. The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility by the event of the battle of Hastings. The whole race of Saxon princes and nobles had been extirpated or disinherited. At court and in the castles of the great nobles, Norman-Frennch was the only language employed.(...) ...the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished hbave been so happily blended together..." (p.2, 3).

 

 

"And swine is good Saxon, said the Jester; but how call you the sow when she is flayed and drawn and quartered and hung up by the heels, like a traitor ? Pork, answered the swineherd.

 

Nay, I can tell you more : there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou, but becomes Beef, a fiery French gallant, when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him. Mynherr Calf, too, becomes Monsieur de Veau in the like manner..." (p.8,9)