History of the Conquest of England by the Normans Quotes

“The ancient Britons lived and breathed in poetry: the expression may seem extravagant, but it is not so in reality; for, in their political maxims, preserved to our own times, they place the poet-musician beside the agriculturist and the artist, as one of the three pillars of social existence.”
― Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: All Volumes

“Harold, according to some historians, crowned himself with his own hand, without any religious ceremony; and renewing in his heart the ancient spirit of his ancestors, he conceived a hatred for Christianity.”
― Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: All Volumes