The cat's claws are clipped now, maybe." Well, I knew this, and said nothing.

One could expect no more from Earl Wulfnoth's son.

Nor do I think that any loved Emma the queen much.

One may know how a person is thought of by the way in which folk name them often enough, and though our king would have had his young wife called by her English name, Elfgiva, none ever did so.
Her Norman, foreign name was all we used.

If she had been loved, we should have rejoiced to name her in our own way.
Then Godwine said: "You have had an ill time with Emma, as I think, if she is all that my father says." "Nay, Godwine," said Relf, "Redwald will not bear much of this.