Note 44 — Chapter VII · FROM THE ELECTION OF EADWARD TO THE BANISHMENT OF GODWINE.[1] 1042–1051.
Reading edition
Vita Eadw. 397.
“Aureus è puppi leo prominet; æquora proræ
Celsæ pennato perterret corpore draco
Aureus, et linguis flammam vomit ore trisulcis.”
Were the dragon and the lion thus coupled to express Eadward’s mixed origin, English and Norman?