"---- sout en Daneiz, en Normant[139] parler: Une chartre sout lire, è li parz deviser: Li pere l'out bien fet duire è doutriner. De tables è d'eschez sout compaignon mater: Bien sout paistre[140] un oisel è livrer è porter: En bois sout cointement è berser[141] è vener. As talevas[142] se sout bien couvrir è moler[143], Mestre pié destre avant è entre d'els dobler: Talons sout remuer è retraire è noxer, Saillir deverz senestre è treget[144] tost geter: C'est un colp damageux ki ne s'en seit garder, Mais l'en ne s'i deit lungement demorer." _Roman de Rou_, vol. i. p. 126. Of the STANDARDS in use at this period, the notices that have reached us are neither numerous nor clear. In Asser's "Life of King Alfred" we read, that the Christian English gained a signal victory over the pagan Danes in Devon, slaying their king, and capturing "among other things, the standard called Raven; and they say that the three sisters of Hingwar and Hubba, daughters of Lodobroch, wove that flag and got it ready in one day[145]. They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory, a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated, it would hang down motionless. And this was often proved to be so." (Sub an. 878.) The Danish chronicles and sagas, however, make no mention of this Raven standard. Mr. Worsaae ("Danes in England") gives the engraving of a coin of Anlaf, on which he recognises the national device, and finds it again in that figure of a bird on one of the flags of the Bayeux tapestry; "for it is very natural," he says, "that the Scandinavian vikings, or Normans, who had achieved such famous conquests under Odin's Raven, should continue to preserve this sign," &c. Ancient evidences are not agreed as to the Anglo-Saxon standard used at the battle of Hastings. William of Poitiers describes it as "memorabile vexillum Heraldi, hominis armati imaginem intextam habens ex auro purissimo." Malmesbury follows him: "vexillum--quod erat in hominis pugnantis figura, auro et lapidibus arte sumptuosa contextum."