Note 2 — Chapter XIV
Edgar Taylor translation
Benoit bears ample testimony to the personal qualifications of Harold:
Pros ert Heraut e virtuos, E empernanz e corajoz: N'estoveit pas en nule terre Sos ciel meillor chevaler querre: Beaus esteit trop, e beaus parlers, Donierre e larges viandiers.
His mother, according to the same authority, dissuaded him from the enterprise, equally with his brother; who, besides the reasons urged in Wace, presses the army's need of repose after the late campaign.