Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон

rising race were still dazzled by the pomp of the Norman; and the fashion of English manners, and the pride in English deeds, had gone out of date with long locks and bearded chins. Nor there were the bishops and abbots and the lords of the Church,—for dear to them already the fame of the Norman piety, and they shared the distaste of their holy King to the strong sense and homely religion of Godwin, who founded no convents, and rode to war with no relics round his neck. But they with Godwin were the stout and the frank and the free, in whom rested the pith and marrow of English manhood; and they who were against him were the blind and willing and fated fathers of slaves unborn.

      1

      Dunwich, now swallowed up by the sea.—Hostile element to the house of Godwin.

      2

      Windsor.

      3

      The chronicler

1

Dunwich, now swallowed up by the sea.—Hostile element to the house of Godwin.

2

Windsor.

3

The chronicler, however, laments that the household ties, formerly so strong with the Anglo-Saxon, had been much weakened in the age prior to the Conquest.