Note 979 — Chapter IX · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE RETURN OF GODWINE TO THE DEATH OF EADWARD THE ÆTHELING.[921] 1052–1057.
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Chron. Ab. “Ac hit wæs heom mæst eallon lað þæt hig sceoldon fohtan wið heora agenes cynnes mannum.... Eac hig noldon þæt utlendiscum þeodum wære þes eard þurh þæt þe swiðor gerymed þe hí heom sylfe ælc oðerne forfore.” The words doubtless simply mean men of their own nation. Roger of Wendover (i. 491) must have had this Chronicle before him, and must have taken the words to mean kinsmen in the later and narrower sense; “Angli, quorum filii, nepotes, et consanguinei cum Godwino erant, noluerunt contra eos dimicare.” Florence has the intermediate expression “propinquos ac compatriotas.”