[39] Taylor’s Wace, page 7.
[40] This observation, together with some others which may not in every case require to be specially noted, has been taken from a clever series of papers on the Bayeux Tapestry, which were published in the Ladies’ Newspaper for 1851-2.
[41] Akerman on Celtic and Teutonic Weapons.—Archæ., vol. xxxiv.
[42] Mr. Charles Stothard in the Archæologia, vol. xix, p. 189.
[43] Taylor’s Wace, p. 11.
[44] Introduction to Domesday, vol. ii. p. 404.
[45] The Song of Roland, London, 1854.
[46] William of Malmesbury, (Bohn’s edition) p. 279.
[47] Thierry’s Norman Conquest (London, 1841), p. 41.
[48] The following passages from the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester furnish distinct evidence as to the marriage of Harold with Algitha:—“Regnavit autem Haraldus mensibus IX. et diebus totidem. Cujus morte audita, comites Eadwinus et Morcarus, qui se cum suis certamini subtraxere, Lundoniam venere, et sororem suam Algitham reginam sumptam ad civitatem Legionum misere.” “Anno regni XXIII. rex Anglorum Eadwardus decessit. Cui ex ipsius concessione comes Haroldus, filius Godwini West-Saxonum ducis ... successit; qui de regina Aldgitha, comitis Alfgari filia, habuit filium Haroldum; eodemque anno a Normanorum comite Willelmo peremptus est in bello.”—Monumenta Historica, pp. 614, 642.