Note 982 — Chapter IX · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE RETURN OF GODWINE TO THE DEATH OF EADWARD THE ÆTHELING.[921] 1052–1057.
Reading edition
See vol. i. p. 466. The Worcester and Abingdon Chronicles, a little way before, have a singular remark that the only good troops on both sides were English; “Forðan þar wæs lyt elles þe aht mycel myhton buton Englisce men on ægþer healfe.” This sounds like a slur on the military prowess alike of the King’s Frenchmen, of Harold’s Irish Danes, and of any Flemings who may have come with Godwine.