Sometime during the Danish Occupation of England, a collection of Viking Sagas, today called the Hammer Bryg Collection, was written. The sagas, now sadly only existing in fragmentary form, consisted of a series of epic tales concerning the settlement of 'Hammer Bryg', which most historians identify with the modern village of Ambridge. The tales included such titles as The Saga Holy Day of Jhec und Pyggi, The Aga of Jennifyr Äldryg and this, taken from The Eyndliss Saga of Whyll und Aymer, also known as Whyll's Whail:
Whan Whyll Kayper of Bhrian's Gayme,
Found Aymer wyth bruther Ayd had layne,
Wroth was Whyll und wrathword spake,
"Ich möst beleve 'tis sum mystayke."
Yet was nicht so, was silly hoap,
Say Whyll hys bruther Ayd he smote.
Whyll's wyfe Aymer, of Cahrter race,
Yayt thoght to turn her temptreys face,
To Ayd; In wagon mayd their home,
Whylst Whyll and Aym at mouth did foam.
Wonderlich were they enwraged,
And wordwarre wayged,
O'er Gorge, who's fadir was yn doubt
'Tyl teste of Pater rwled Ayd out.
And soe continus in thys way:
Now Whyll taykes Gorge on Holy Day.
Butte iyf Gorge has goode seynse he will
Ataympt to fly from Aym AND Whyll.
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This clever parody, inspired by Beoleopard or, the Witan's Whail in Sellers and Yeatman's 1066 and All That, was contributed to the Fantasy Archers topic of
