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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

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54 (return (#x3_x_3_i76))

See note to PLUQUET’s Roman de Rou, p. 285. N.B.—Whenever the Roman de Rou is quoted in these pages it is from the excellent edition of M. Pluquet.

55 (return (#x3_x_3_i79))

Pardex or Parde, corresponding to the modern French expletive, pardie.

56 (return (#x3_x_3_i83))

Quen, or rather Quens; synonymous with Count in the Norman Chronicles. Earl Godwin is strangely styled by Wace, Quens Qwine.

57 (return (#x3_x_3_i85))

“Good, good, pleasant son,—the words of the poet sound gracefully on the lips of the knight.”

58 (return (#x3_x_3_i88))

A sentiment variously assigned to William and to his son Henry the Beau Clerc.

59 (return (#x3_x_3_i90))

Mallet is a genuine Scandinavian name to this day.

60 (return (#x4_x_4_i0))

Rou—the name given by the French to Rollo, or Rolf-ganger, the founder of the Norman settlement.

61 (return (#x4_x_4_i81))

Pious severity to the heterodox was a Norman virtue. William of Poictiers says of William, “One knows with what zeal he pursued and exterminated those who thought differently;” i.e., on transubstantiation. But the wise Norman, while flattering the tastes of the Roman Pontiff in such matters, took special care to preserve the independence of his Church from any undue dictation.

62 (return (#x4_x_4_i86))

A few generations later this comfortable and decent fashion of night-gear was abandoned; and our forefathers, Saxon and Norman, went to bed in puris naturalibus, like the Laplanders.

63 (return (#x4_x_4_i91))

Most of the chroniclers merely state the parentage within the forbidden degrees as the obstacle to William’s marriage with Matilda; but the betrothal or rather nuptials of her mother Adele with Richard III. (though never consummated), appears to have been the true canonical objection.—See note to Wace, p. 27. Nevertheless, Matilda’s mother, Adele, stood in the relation of aunt to William, as widow of his father’s elder brother, “an affinity,” as is observed by a writer in the “Archaeologia,” “quite near enough to account for, if not to justify, the interference of the Church.”—Arch. vol. xxxii. p. 109.

64 (return (#x4_x_4_i97))

It might be easy to show, were this the place, that though the Saxons never lost their love of liberty, yet that the victories which gradually regained the liberty from the gripe of the Anglo-Norman kings, were achieved by the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. And even to this day, the few rare descendants of that race (whatever their political faction), will generally exhibit that impatience of despotic influence, and that disdain of corruption, which characterise the homely bonders of Norway, in whom we may still recognise the sturdy likeness of their fathers; while it is also remarkable that the modern inhabitants of those portions of the kingdom originally peopled by their kindred Danes, are, irrespective of mere party divisions, noted for their intolerance of all oppression, and their resolute independence of character; to wit, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Cumberland, and large districts in the Scottish Lowlands.

65 (return (#x4_x_4_i101))

Ex pervetusto codice, MS. Chron. Bec. in Vit. Lanfranc, quoted in the “Archaeologia,” vol. xxxii. p. 109. The joke, which is very poor, seems to have turned upon pede and quadrupede; it is a little altered in the text.

66 (return (#x4_x_4_i128))

Ord. Vital. See Note on Lanfranc, at the end of the volume.

67 (return (#x4_x_4_i131))

Siward was almost a giant (pene gigas statures). There are some curious anecdotes of this hero, immortalised by Shakspere, in the Bromton Chronicle. His grandfather is said to have been a bear, who fell in love with a Danish lady; and his father, Beorn, retained some of the traces of the parental physiognomy in a pair of pointed ears. The origin of this fable seems evident. His grandfather was a Berserker; for whether that name be derived, as is more generally supposed, from bare-sark,—or rather from bear-sark, that is, whether this grisly specimen of the Viking genus fought in his shirt or his bearskin, the name equally lends itself to those mystifications from which half the old legends, whether of Greece or Norway, are derived.

68 (return (#x4_x_4_i171))

Wace.

69 (return (#x5_x_5_i3))

See Note (E), at the end of the volume (foot-note on the date of William’s marriage).

70 (return (#x5_x_5_i4))

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

71 (return (#x5_x_5_i5))

Some writers say fifty.

72 (return (#x5_x_5_i6))

Hovenden.

73 (return (#x5_x_5_i6))

Bodes, i.e. messengers.

74 (return (#x5_x_5_i7))

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

75 (return (#x5_x_5_i10))

Or Fleur-de-lis, which seems to have been a common form of ornament with the Saxon kings.

76 (return (#x5_x_5_i10))

Bayeux Tapestry.

77 (return (#x5_x_5_i11))

See note (F), at the end of the volume.

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The York Chronicle, written by an Englishman, Stubbs, gives this eminent person an excellent character as peacemaker. “He could make the warmest friends of foes the most hostile.” “De inimicissimis, amicissimos faceret.” This gentle priest had yet the courage to curse the Norman Conqueror in the midst of his barons. That scene is not within the range of this work, but it is very strikingly told in the Chronicle.
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