Note 984 — 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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Vita Eadw. 406. “Dum,” inquit, “fidelitatis suæ in corde meo habeam hodie testem, me scilicet malle mortem, quàm aliquid indecens et iniquum egerim, vel agam, vel me vivo agi permittam in dominum meum Regem [cynehlaforde].” William of Malmesbury is certainly justified in saying of Godwine personally, if not of all Godwine’s followers, “pacifico animo repatriantes.”