. The camp of refuge;. Gesta, especially in chapter 106. In GefFrei Gaimars LEstorie des Engles (vv. 5457-5710) there is nothing before the uprising in the describes hira as a noble man, one of the best ofthe country; it tells of the fortifying of the isle, ofHerewards firing of Williams bridge, of his plunder-ing of Peterborough. It seems further to imply thathe married Alftruda, no mention being made ofTurfrida; and it givesat considerable length (5615-5700) an account of his murder by certain Normanknights. It mentions (5609) that he had taken partin an expedition of King William in
. The camp of refuge;. Gesta, especially in chapter 106. In GefFrei Gaimars LEstorie des Engles (vv. 5457-5710) there is nothing before the uprising in the describes hira as a noble man, one of the best ofthe country; it tells of the fortifying of the isle, ofHerewards firing of Williams bridge, of his plunder-ing of Peterborough. It seems further to imply thathe married Alftruda, no mention being made ofTurfrida; and it givesat considerable length (5615-5700) an account of his murder by certain Normanknights. It mentions (5609) that he had taken partin an expedition of King William into Maine. Mr. Searle has devoted a separate volume of theCambridge Antiquarian Societys publications to astudy of Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis, and hissummaries are very valuable. Ingulf begins with Here-wards pedigree (of which more hereafter), his youth,and his exile about 1062 ; his journey to Northumbria,Cornwall, and Ireland, and his exploits in Flanders;tells of his marriage with Turfrida, her becoming a. ANGLO-SAXON MINSTRELS (Cottonian MSS.) INTRODUCTION xxi nun, the attack upon Peterborough, capture of Torold;and concludes the story of his life that he ended itin peace and was buried at Croyland by the side of his■wife) nothing being said of a second wife, or of leaves us with the principal legendary account,the Gesta Herervardi Saxonis, contained in a Latin the twelfth century, printed by Mr. T. Wright in avolume of the publications of the Caxton Societypublished in 1850. Mr. Wright has also published asort of free translation of this ms. in the second volumeof his Essays on the Middle Ages, from which thefollowing account is chiefly abridged. The secondchapter commences a retrospective account of Here-ward, the first chapter having related his landing atBourne in 1068. This account makes Hereward theson of Leofric, Earl of Chester and Mercia, and ofhis wife jEdiva, the famous Lady Godiva of theCoventry legend. As he grew up, his adventu
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