96 CHRONICLE OF THE SAGA IX. Earl Walthiof he slew, — Walthiof the brave and true. Cold heart and bloody hand Now rule the English land." William was after this king of England for twenty- one years, and his descendants have been so ever since. William died in his bed in Norman dv, and after him his son William the Red was king there for fourteen years. Then Henry his brother took the kingdom. He was a son of William the First. Chapter ^ William's father was Robert Longspear ; his father Family* was Rlchard son of Richard, who was son of William register. ^^iq soh of Hrolf Ganger, who first conquered Nor- mandy. All these, one after the other, were Rouen earls ; that is, counts of Rothemage f in Normandy. Hrolf Ganger was a son of Rognvald, earl of More in Norway, a brother of Earl Thorer the Silent, and of Torf Einar the earl of Orknev who killed Halfdan Haaleg because he had killed his father Rognvald earl of More, as is related in the Saga of Harald Haarfager. King Ethelred of England was married to Queen Emma, a sister of William the Bastard of Normandy J, and had two sons by her, Edward and Edmund §,
- This chapter, says Thorlacius, is only to be found in the Heims-
kringla of Peringskiold, and is therefore suspected to be an interpolation of the saga transcriber, whose manuscript Peringskiold used. •j" Rothemagi, Rothemadun, Ruda, Rudaborg, are the names given to Rouen, and its territory Normandy ; and William the Conqueror and his predecessors are called by their contemporaries Ruda-Jarlar, — Earls of Rouen. The following is the succession of this genealogy : — 1 . Rogn- vald, earl of More in Norway. 2. Hrolf Ganger, conqueror of Normandy. 3. William: in his time the language of the Northmen was not used at Rouen, for he sent his son Richard to Bayeux to learn it. Normandy was a conquest, not a colony. (See Gibbon, chapter Ivi. note.) 4. Richard. 5. Richard his son, the father of Emma. 6. Robert Longspear. ?• William the Conqueror.
This is a mistake. Emma, the queen of Ethelred, and afterwards
of Canute, was not the sister, but the aunt by the father's side, of William the Conqueror, according to the Saxon Chronicle. § It was not Edmund the king who was expelled by Canute, but his son Edmund. King Edmund died, or was cut off by Duke Eodric, in 1016.
