. The camp of refuge;. agers, however, are very well described onp. 329 in the account of the raid upon Dereham. The house customs described on p. 179 are inaccord with what is known of Anglo-Saxon life, butthe bath mentioned on p. 181 is probably an ana-chronism. The Norman baptismal feast described inchapter vi. is probably correct, and the illustration,from an early Ms., given in Wrights Domestic Manners,p. 64, of a Norman carousal may be referred to. Affectionate regard is paid to Harold. He isbelieved to have escaped alive from Hastings (seep. 57), and to have been preparing to again head
. The camp of refuge;. agers, however, are very well described onp. 329 in the account of the raid upon Dereham. The house customs described on p. 179 are inaccord with what is known of Anglo-Saxon life, butthe bath mentioned on p. 181 is probably an ana-chronism. The Norman baptismal feast described inchapter vi. is probably correct, and the illustration,from an early Ms., given in Wrights Domestic Manners,p. 64, of a Norman carousal may be referred to. Affectionate regard is paid to Harold. He isbelieved to have escaped alive from Hastings (seep. 57), and to have been preparing to again head theEnglish against the Norman Conqueror. This has,however, only the warrant of a ms. life of Harold ofthe thirteenth century, which has been reprinted byMr. Walter de Gray Birch, and of a story related byGiraldus Cambrensis, that Harold survived the battle,became a monk in Chester, and before he died had along and secret interview with Henry the First. Nohistorian except Palgrave gives credit to this, but the •^,^^:. ANGLO-SAXON HOUSE (Harleim MSS. No. 603) INTRODUCTION Ixv uncertainty as to Harolds burial would account for ithaving arisen. According to most of the Englishwriters, the body of Harold was given by William toGitha, without ransom, and buried at William of Poitiers, who was the Dukes ownchaplain, expressly says that William refused Githasoffer of its weight in gold for the supposed corpse ofHarold, and ordered it to be buried on the beach,with the well-known taunt, Let him guard the coastwhich he madly occupied; and on the pretext thatone whose cupidity and avarice had been the causethat so many men were slaughtered and lay un-sepultured, was not worthy himself of a tomb. Ordericconfirms this account, and says the body was given toWilliam Mallet for that purpose. It is also put in the story, as a matter of belief,that Hastings was lost by foul treachery (see p. 58),but of this there is absolutely no proof. Other more specific matters of history or ar
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