Erasmus#24 divergent point of view (interesting one though)

"Then the thought occured to him that he had been taught an important lesson. England was a peculiar-tasty smoked fish full of spikes and bones, and nobody would ever tell him how to eat it. He discovered that he was a bloody-minded person. 'I'll show them all,' he swore 'You see if I don't.' The eaten kipper was the first victory, the first step in the conquest of England.
William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand."

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses