Harold, Complete

is proud vassals, and drove back his fierce foes. With the other, he led to the

s bride, and the ban fell idle; for Lanfranc sent from Rome the Pope's dispensation and blessing 69, conditionally only that bride and bridegroom founded each a church. And Mauger was summoned before the synod, and accused of unclerical crimes; and they deposed him from his state, and took

set and Devon, a mixed and mainly a Celtic race, who bore small love t

sons-in-law, both Tostig and William,)-meanwhile, I say, these, not holpen by the Count Baldwin, but helping themselves, lay at Bruges, ready to join Harold the Earl. And Edward, advised of this from the anxious Norman, caused forty ships 71 to be equipp

odwin." 72 Fast over the length and breadth of the land, went the bodes 73 and riders of the Earl; and hosts, with one voice, answered the cry of the children of Horsa, "Life or death with Earl Godwin." And

he swarming multitudes. And King Edward sent after more help, but it came up very late. So the fleet of the Earl nearly faced the Ju