waelsch

Updated: May 2, 2025

In his impatience against "the beautiful, false French poets who rhyme more than they know," van Maerlant declared that all French things were false: "wat waelsch is valsch is," but one would seek vainly any systematic hostility towards France in the poet's encyclopædic work.

Emile Cammaerts - Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day