Vulgar words in The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) (Page 1)
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King Harald is now very old & hath but one son, a bastard, whom he loveth but little.'
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The mother to King Edward was Queen Emma, the daughter of Richard, the Rouen-Earl; and her brother was Earl Robert, the mother of William the Bastard, who was at that time duke of Rouen in Normandy.
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ΒΆ Now tidings were borne to the Rouen Earl, William the Bastard, of the death of King Edward his kinsman, & furthermore was it told how Harald Godwinson had been acclaimed as King of England and had been consecrated thereto.
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King Harald then turned southward with his host, for he had learned that William Bastard was faring northward through England, & was conquering the country.