Capitolo 12
"united in a common policy, they would have been able to correct the downfall of the
country of origin." But there was too much egoist and a lack of
patriotism. Edwin and Morcar went around trying to persuade people that
one or the others of them should be made king. Some of the bishops appear
to have opposed the choice of some kings. Any personality that dominates rose
to force accord and to give direction and to motorize to the popular one
impulse. England was conquered, not from the superior strength and genius of
the Norman one, but from the failure of his own men in a great crisis of her
history.
The need of the alacrity seems an element in the situation, and under the
pressure combined of the rapid approach of the enemy and the public
opinion of the city--citizens and shipmen are both mentioned--the leaders
of Church and State it finally came to an accord that the atheling of Edgar
king should be done. It was the only possible footstep unless of
immediate subjugation. Nephew of Edmund Ironside, the king that had
resistance stubborn and more skilled offer to a first foreigner
invader, heir of a house that had been real from when the run had had a
history, all the men could unite on him, and on him alone, if there it owes
is a king. But there was no other matter in his/her favour. Neither the
blood of his/her grandfather neither the school of the adversity had done of him the
man to treat with such situation. In later life he thrilled people as a
well-mannered man, of accord, and frank, but nobody ever discovered in him
the stuff of which I/you/they are made heroes. He was not consecrate never king, nevertheless
the action would have strengthened its position, and one wonders if the fact
it is evidence in which the leaders had only produced to a popular pressure
agreeing on him against their his/her own preference, or only of the alacrity
and confusion of events. An action of the sovereignty is only attributed
him, the confirmation of Brand that had been select from the monks Abbot
of Peterborough, in succession to Leofric of the house of Edwin and
Morcar that had been present to the battle of Hastings and it was dead