The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

Although Sweyn had promised to leave England, he returned in spring 1070, raiding along the Humber and East Anglia toward the Isle of Ely, where he joined up with Hereward the Wake, a local thegn.

Earl Edwin was betrayed by his own men and killed, while William built a causeway to subdue the Isle of Ely, where Hereward the Wake and Morcar were hiding.

* William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.

* Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.

* Hereward the Wake ( year approximate )

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

Hereward the Wake ( c. 1035 – 1072 ), known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England.

In Kingsley's 1865 Hereward the Wake, the name of the knight who bribed the monks to gain access to the isle is given as Belasius, and the feature is noted in Lysons ' Magna Britannia ( 1808 vol2, pt1, Cambridgeshire ).

* BR standard class 7 ( otherwise known as the " Britannia Class ") locomotive No 70037 carried the name " Hereward the Wake ".

* Thomas Bulfinch wrote about Hereward the Wake in his work: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes ( 1855 ).

* Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake: " last of the English " ( London: Macmillan, 1866 ) is a highly romanticised account of Hereward's exploits, and makes him the son of Earl Leofric of Mercia and the ancestor of the family of Wake.

* Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: a novel of Hereward the Wake ( 2004 ) is a novel by Laurence J.

* Hereward the Wake makes a significant appearance in Keeper of the Crystal Spring ( 1998 ) by Naomi & Deborah Baltuck, a historical romance / adventure set in a predominantly Saxon community 20 years after the Battle of Hastings.

* Hereward is portrayed as a prototype Robin Hood, but also a drug-taking, psychopathic arsonist, in Mike Ripley's novel The Legend of Hereward the Wake ( 2007 ).

* The BBC made a 16-episode TV series in 1965 entitled Hereward the Wake, based on Kingsley's novel: Hereward was portrayed by actor Alfred Lynch.

* Progressive rock band Pink Floyd referred to Hereward in the track " Let There Be More Light " ( 1968 ), in which a psychedelic vision at Mildenhall reveals the ' living soul of Hereward the Wake '.

Sweyn II of Denmark arrived in person to take command of his fleet and renounced the earlier agreement to withdraw, sending troops into the Fens to join forces with English rebels led by Hereward, who were based on the Isle of Ely.

The name Hereward is composed of Old English roots here

* Hereward, together with De Gestis Herewardi Saxonis ; researched and compiled in the 12th century by monastery historians, revised and rewritten in modern English by Trevor A. Bevis, ( 1982 ), Pub.

* Hereward the Wake — English translation of Gesta Herewardi at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

* Charles Kingsley, Hereward, the Last of the English, 1865, at Project Gutenburg

* Hereward the Wake, who led the English resistance to the Norman Conquest from the fens

Following the Norman Conquest, the Isle became a refuge for English forces under Earl Morcar, Bishop Aethelwine of Durham and Hereward the Wake in 1071.

Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.

This linking of " Anglo-Saxon " English nationalism and anti-Catholicism influenced Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake ( 1864 ), which, like Ivanhoe, helped popularise the image of a romantic Anglo-Saxon England destroyed by the Normans.

Hereward Thimbleby Price ( 1880 – 1964 ) was an English author and Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

In the same year that Twenty's railway station opened ( 1866 ), the novelist Charles Kingsley published his romance Hereward, the Last of the English, in which he describes the Fens as he thought they had been in around 1070.

* Hereward, the Last of the English.

According to the Gesta Herewardi, Hereward was exiled at the age of eighteen for disobedience to his father and disruptive behaviour, and he was declared an outlaw by Edward the Confessor.

Geoffrey Gaimar, in his Estoire des Engleis, says instead that Hereward lived for some time as an outlaw in the Fens, but that as he was on the verge of making peace with William, he was set upon and killed by a group of Norman knights.

* January 13 – John Wake, English cricketer

* May 31 – Thomas Wake, English politician ( b. 1297 )

Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.

Initial reaction to Finnegans Wake, both in its serialized and final published form, was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open hostility towards its lack of respect for the conventions of the novel.

James Joyce's work Finnegans Wake preserves something of the spirit of Hiberno-Latin in English.

The most densely allusive work in modern English is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he conducted a correspondence with Archbishop William Wake on the subject of episcopal succession in England, which supplied him with material for his work, Dissertation sur la validité des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des évéques de l ' Eglise anglicane, avec les preuves justificatives des faits avancés ( Brussels, 1723 ), an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the English clergy.

If Ulysses is the story of a day, Finnegans Wake is a night epic, partaking in the logic of dreams and written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin and is called Joycespeak, deemed virtually unreadable at the time of its release, it became a cult classic with the emergence of the beat generation, particularly William S. Burroughs, in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1932 Ogden published a translation of the Finnegans Wake passage into Basic English.

The Lowles married daughters of noble English families including Wake, Lyttleton, Russell, and Percival.

Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

The English Composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958 ) composed a piece of music called " Epithalamion " consisting of 11 songs: The Prologue, Wake now, The Calling of the Bride, The Minstrels, Procession of the Bride, The Temple Gates, The Bell Ringers, The Lover's Song, The Minstrel's Song, Song of the Winged Loves, and Prayer to Juno.

Buchanan's American stage appearances included: André Charlot's Revues, Charles B. Cochran's Wake Up and Dream, Pardon My English, Between the Devil, Harvey ( 1948 ).

* Brian Wake ( born 1982 ), English footballer

* Harry Wake ( 1901 – 1981 ), English footballer

* Isaac Wake ( 1580 – 1632 ), English diplomat and political commentator

* John Wake ( born 1953 ), English cricketer