It was originally created by the Army Corps of Engineers
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It is named after Lady Godiva, the Saxon woman who, legend has it, rode naked through the city of Coventry.
It survives in a Latin translation by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and in vernacular versions written down in several manuscripts of Bede's Historia.
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Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem originally composed by Cædmon, in honour of God the Creator.
Godiva was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Draps who opened his first boutique in the Grand Place in Brussels under its present name, in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva.
In 2003 the two combined to become the Godiva Carnival Procession which is associated with the three-day Godiva Festival held in Coventry's War Memorial Park.
Samples from the track "Me-Devil" are featured on the Global Metal trailer.
Jinny Greenteeth was the name of a fictional character in DC comics 2011 crossover title Flashpoint, working alongside characters such as Godiva and Etrigan the Demon to free the British Isles from Amazonian occupation.
There is further description given on the Godiva procession under the sub-article Lady Godiva in popular culture.
On screen, Leofric has been portrayed by Roy Travers in the British silent short Lady Godiva (1928), George Nader in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955), and Tony Steedman in the BBC TV series Hereward the Wake (1965).
It is said to have been re-founded and re-endowed in 1054 by Leofric and Godiva encouraged by Bishop Wulfwig as a Minster of Secular Canons with the Bishop at its head.