Then came Aldwyth, Harold's wife; but she too, was unable to find the body of her husband.
Last of all came Edith of the Swan's Neck, whom Harold had loved; and she sought long for the body.
At last she came to a corpse that was lying upon a heap of dead, disfigured with so many wounds that only she could have known it.
'That is Harold,' she said.
William gave orders that the last of the English kings should be buried upon the cliffs that guard the shores of England, and a heap of stones raised upon it.
'Let him lie there,' he said; 'he kept the shore manfully while he lived; let him stay and guard it ever, now he is dead.'
CHAPTER IV
THE BOY WHO WOULD BE A KING
The Norman King of England, a descendant of William the Conqueror, having died without leaving any children, his brother John made himself king.