KINGS OF NORWAY. 75 The king in eighteen months brought down s aga i x. Their bonder power, and raised his own. And the great honour he has gained • "Will still in memory be retained." Edward, Ethelred's son, was king of England after Chapter his brother Hardacanute. He was called Edward the of the Good; and so he was. King Edward's mother was ^^s^ °^ Queen Emma, daughter of Eichard earl of Rouen. tier brother was Earl Robert, whose son was William the Bastard, who at that time was earl at Rouen in Normandy. King Edward's queen was Gyda*, a daughter of Earl Godwin the son of Ulfnad.f Gyda's brothers Avere, Earl Toste J, the eldest; Earl Mauro- kari§ the next; Earl Walter || the third; Earl Swend the fourth; and the fifth was Harald, who was the youngest, and he was brought up at King Edward's court, and was his foster-son. The king loved him very much, and kept him as his own son^; for he had no children. One summer it happened that Harald, the son of chapter Godmn, made an expedition to Bretland** with his ofnlraVd ships; but when they got to sea they met a contrary Godwins wind, and were driven off into the ocean. They landed west in Normandy, after suffering from a dangerous storm. They brought up at Rouen, where
- She is called Githa and Editha by English writers. See Rapin,
vol. i. p. 142. t Earl Godwin was the son of Ulfnoth; the same name as Ulfnad. "^ Harald, and not Toste, was the eldest son of Earl Godwin, accord- ing to our English historians; but the enmity of Toste and others at his assuming the royal title is better accounted for by supposing he was the youngest, and the foster-son of King Edward. § Earl Morcar^ as he is called in English history, was not Harald's brother, but the brother of his wife only. II Earl Walter was not a son of Earl Godwin, but of Si ward, earl of Northumberland. ^ This does not agree with the account of our historians, who say that King Edward favoured Edgar, son of his brother Edmund, who was brought up in Hungary.
- This expedition has been against Wales — Bretland — by the
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