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Author Topic: Lady Godiva: People of Coventry  (Read 269 times)

Brian Murrell

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Lady Godiva: People of Coventry
« on: May 11, 2012, 07:31:42 AM »
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Re: Lady Godiva: People of Coventry
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2012, 10:58:49 PM »
In some versions of the story of the English hero Hereward the Wake (guerrilla warfare leader against the Normans in the fens) he is said to be the son of Godiva and Leofric, who had banished him after he had robbed a tax gatherer.
Has anyone got any views or facts pertaing to that? Hereward is a much underated English hero.
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Re: Lady Godiva: People of Coventry
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2012, 09:52:37 AM »
I've heard about Lady Godiva but I didn't really know anything but she rode through a town naked, nor did I know she was Anglo-Saxon. The whole event kind of reminds of the naked cycle ride protests that sometimes go on in London.
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