licole

Updated: July 24, 2025

"I have heard of him." "He that we slew was Siward, a monk." "More shame to you." "He that we took was Azer the Hardy, a monk of Nicole Licole," the Normans could never say Lincoln. "And the rest were Thurstan the Younger; Leofric the Deacon, Hereward's minstrel; and Boter, the traitor monk of St. Edmund's." "And if I catch them," quoth William, "I will make an abbot of every one of them."

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English