Note 1195 — Chapter VI · THE DANISH KINGS IN ENGLAND.[818] 1017–1042. (continued 3)
Reading edition
See above, p. 327. This story has a mythical sound; still a hunting-party would give unusual opportunities both to commit such a murder and afterwards to represent it as an accident. The fate of William Rufus is a familiar example. Simeon (p. 81) says that, in his time, the place of the murder was marked by a small stone cross.