[135] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 13.
[136] Probably not the isle of Olney, but some other islet that has since disappeared. See Oman, England before the Norman Conquest, 581.
[137] Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, 185; Knytlingasaga, c. 16. The saga says distinctly that there was to be inheritance only if either died without children.
[138] Saga of Magnus the Good, c. 6.
[139] Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 179.
[140] Sigeferth and Morcar were slain in Eadric's house at the Oxford gemot. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1015.)
[141] See Freeman (Norman Conquest, i., Note xx) whose argument seems conclusive.
[142] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 14.
[143] Gesta Regum, i., 213-214. The author merely tells us that Edmund's mother was of ignoble birth; but a woman of low degree would scarcely be made queen of England.
[144] Ethelred of Rievaux. See Freeman, Norman Conquest, i., Note ss.