Geoffrey, it should be noticed, has nothing to say about dreams and warnings; the gab between the King and Walter Tirel seems in his version to take their place (see [p. 322]). But in the other account which deals kindly with Rufus, that of Benoît de Sainte-More (see [p. 332]), the warning dream, in this case assigned to the King himself, plays an important part. So also does Gundulf, the expounder of the dream. His presence is thus explained (40523);
“Veirs est e chose coneue
C’une haors avoit eue
Od l’evesque de Rovecestre,
Qui chapelains est e deit estre
L’arcevesque de Cantorbire:
E por c’ert vers le rei en ire
Que Saint Anseaume aveit chacié
E fors de la terre essilié.
Cil evesque de Rovecestre