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Thirty thousand pounds. That’s what the Gesta claims Hereward charged the Normans for the return of their warlike Abbot Turold.
Thirty thousand.
It is such an obviously inflated number that it almost feels like the scribe is looking directly in the camera and saying “Hey, don’t forget, some of this story is legendary… but we aren’t going to tell you which bits.” Because there’s no way that this was the actual sum that Hereward was charging.
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