Talk:Ealdgyth Swan-neck
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I do not know which link caused the above article to be dinged by the spam filter...
I don't know if it was because these are primarily genealogical sites but as I was looking for specific information that I have read or seen in British history documentaries and Googled these points, these sites above were the easiest/quickest/most succinct way of stating these facts.
I was just trying to "expand the stub" as was suggested... Floracalifornia 23:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Edited to add: I just removed the links. Let me know if I have to find "different" links that state the same information. Thanks. Floracalifornia 23:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
A lot of this is really very speculative, and it seems cobbled together from different accounts, some of them rather late. The story of Ealdgyth's identification of Harold is taken from the Waltham Chronicle, written a good century after the events it describes. Note that both the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy of Amiens (c. 1068) and the Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (c. 1075) claim that Harold was buried not at Waltham, but under a cairn by the coast (and this from Norman apologists!). The Waltham story is dubious - if Harold was moved to the Abbey, it was probably after William's lifetime. 131.111.220.6 (talk) 04:38, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ealdgyth of Mercia
Ealdgyth of Mercia redirects here, but this is wrong. They were two different people. TharkunColl (talk) 19:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
