His sons carried him out, and four days afterwards he died, and was buried in the Old Minster.

Now you may suppose that the Normans and all the French- men and foreigners of all sorts hated Earl Godwine while he was alive, and loved to tell tales against him when he was dead.

Besides that most unlikely story that he had a hand in the blinding and death of Alfred, they had all kinds of lies to tell of him and his sons.

Now I have told you the real story of his death, as it is in the Chronicles, I will tell you the Norman story, and I think you will be able to see how such stories were made up by putting together pieces of different tales.

When Edward the Saint was King of the English, he one year kept his Easter feast in the royal city of Winchester, and God wine the traitor, who was the Earl of the West-Saxons, was at meat with him.