Lines on English History.—The Sword Flamberg.—I shall be greatly obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me where I can procure a copy of some lines on English history, commencing:
"William the Norman conquers England's state—
In his own forest Rufus meets his fate," &c.
They are said to be written by a Roman Catholic gentleman named Chaloner.
I also wish to know something about the old German sword called the "Flamberg." I have seen it represented as twisted like a column of flame, and should like to know its history, and whether there was any allusion in it to the flaming sword that kept the gate of Paradise.
Mention is made of it by Körner in his poem, "Männer und Buben:"
"Stosst mit an
Mann für Mann
Wer den Flamberg schwingen kann."
Can your correspondents tell me, also, whether there is such a phrase, expressive of the place where four roads met, as a "four warnt way," and whence its origin, and how properly spelt?