She reached the opposite gate, and felt her way along its rails and the rails of the sheep-fold, till her hand encountered the pricking of the gorsy wall.
They were named after their founder Geoffrey V d'Anjou – historians believe that he earned the nickname Plantagenet due to the yellow flowers he wore in his hat.
他们以他们创始人 Geoffrey V d'Anjou 名字命名 - 历史学家认为,由于他戴着帽子上黄色花朵,他赢得了金雀花绰号。
If you look at the yellow flowers of the prickly plant called the gorse or whin, you will see that they, too, are shaped very much like the flowers of the pea.
As she turned into the long straight of the chalky lane where her quick country-trained eyes had noticed that boot yesterday, she wished that Tisdall might have better cover than those gorse bushes.
The pavilion was but a blackened wreck; the roof had fallen in, one of the gables had fallen out; and, far and near, the face of the links was cicatrised with little patches of burnt furze.
Although it might be easy to dismiss the Plantagenets as solely violent kings, they were essential to providing the structure England needed to move past the Norman Conquest and become the country it is today.
To learn more about the Plantagenets, check out our book, The Wars of the Roses: A Captivating Guide to the English Civil Wars That Brought down the Plantagenet Dynasty and Put the Tudors on the Throne.
The time of the Plantagenets was violent and ruthless; the question of royal succession caused division in the family and eventually led to one of the most complex civil wars in English history: the Wars of the Roses.