[Page 178, line 21]. I.e., one who is in distress.
[Page 182, line 34]. That is to say, 240.
[Page 190, line 29]. Her name was Eadgitha; Gyda was her mother’s name. The sons of Earl Godwin were Harald, Tosti, Svein (died 1052), and Gyrd. Harald was the eldest son. Morcar, or Morkere, and Walthiof were not Earl Godwin’s sons; Morcar was the son of Ælfrik of Mercia, and from 1065 was Earl of Northumberland; Walthiof was the son of the Danish Earl Siward of Northumberland (died 1055).
[Page 191, line 6]. At Ponthieu, where the Count took him prisoner. William released him and had him brought to Rouen. It is not historical that Harald held undue intercourse with William’s wife. William made use of Harald’s compulsory sojourn to make him swear allegiance to him, and affiance him to his daughter.
[Page 192, line 11]. Unhistorical. The church referred to is St. Paul’s in London, but Edward died and was buried at Winchester, where Harald was likewise crowned.
[Page 192, line 18]. This is unhistorical. Tosti had been Earl of Northumberland since 1055, but was driven away by the Northumbrians in October 1065 and fled to Flanders, so that he was not in England at the time of Edward’s death. Harald was Earl of Wessex and the most powerful man in the land.
[Page 192, line 28]. I.e., the thirteenth day of Christmas, January 6.
[Page 193, line 11]. Not historical, see [page 192, line 18].
[Page 195, line 20]. The name of King Canute’s Danish guard, instituted 1018.
[Page 196, line 3]. The Sulen Islands outside Sognefjord.