This account given by Wallingford, though he stands single, must be admitted as the only true one.

We are told that the name Lurdane, Lord Dane, for an idle, lazy fellow, who lives at other people's expense, came from the conduct of the Danes who were put to death.

But the English princes had been entirely masters for several generations, and only supported a military corps of that nation.

It seems probable, therefore, that it was these Danes only that were put to death.] [Footnote 5: NOTE E, p.129.The ingenious author of the article Godwin, in the Biographia Britannica, has endeavored to clear the memory of that nobleman, upon the supposition that all the English annals had been falsified by the Norman historians after the conquest.

But that this supposition has not much foundation appears hence, that almost all these historians have given a very good character of his son Harold, whom it was much more the interest of the Norman cause to blacken.] [Footnote 6: Note F, p.137.The whole story of the transactions between Edward, Harold, and the duke of Normandy, is told so differently by the ancient writers, that there are few important passages of the English history liable to so great uncertainty.