Note 1386 — Chapter X · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE DEATH OF THE ÆTHELING TO THE DEATH OF THE KING.[1258] 1057–1066.
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Fl. Wig. 1063. “Equitatu non multo secum assumpto.” The Housecarls were clearly the only troops fitted for a sudden enterprise of this kind. Riding to the field, but fighting on foot, they were dragoons in the earlier sense of the word.