I am not familiar with a woman minstrel who sings of Hastings.

But, speaking of the jongleur, the Roman de Rou, the twelfth-century account of the battle by Robert Wace, recently has been translated into English.

What is intriguing is that the publishers of the poem consider its previous neglect to be tantamount to censorship on the part of historians. But, then, this is the same society that regards Wace's Brut, in which there is the first mention of King Arthur's Round Table, to be "unarguably the most influential vernacular work in the history of European political, dynastic, and popular culture."