"Then King Harold was slain, and Leofwin his brother, and Earl Gyrth his brother, and many good men; and the Frenchmen had possession of the place of slaughter, all as God granted them for the people's sins. Archbishop Aldred and the townspeople of London wished to have Prince Edgar for king, as was his natural right; and Eadwine and Morcar promised that they would fight on his side, but always when it should be most necessary, they were most backward, and so it became the worse for all."

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, account of the Battle of Hastings, entry for 1066. The Chronicle was a collection of annals written in Old English by monks at various monasteries across England. Different manuscripts vary in their accounts.