Alice of Abervenny
Alice was a camp follower in love
with a Norman knight of far-a-way Wales.
When Earl Richard de Clare thereof
(who some yet call “Strongbow”)
was moving against King Dermot,
the Irish drove cows into the fort
only to have them turned again
against themselves by Raymund de Gros.
The defeated (of that battle of men
and cows, some say seventy of them)
were given to Alice, whose love was killed.
She was gifted an axe of tempered steel
And beheaded every one
of the prisoners in a field surreal.
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