Taillefer was a Norman court jester/minstrel, who traveled over to England in 1066 during the Norman conquest with William the Conqueror and is supposedly recorded on the Bayeux tapestry with Turold. At the Battle of Hastings, he went shit crazy screaming The Song of Roland, (Chanson de Roland) spurring on the Norman troops whilst juggling his sword. Legend has it that he asked William for the honour of striking the first blow, and led the first charge alone to be engulfed by English troops, still singing merrily as he went. (11th century hallucinogens?)

Duke William of the Normans spoke unto his servants all:

“Who is it sings so sweetly in the court and in the hall?

Who sings from early morn till the house is still at night

So sweetly that he fills my heart with laughter and delight?”

“‘Tis Taillefer,” they answered him, “so joyously that sings

Within the courtyard, as the wheel above the well he swings,

And when the fire upon the hearth he stirs to burn more bright,

And when he rises to his toil or lays him down at night.”