Editha, the virtuous and lovely Queen of the insensible King, was triumphantly released from her prison, the convent, and once more sat in her chair of state, arrayed in the jewels of which, when she had no champion to support her rights, her cold-blooded husband had deprived her.
The old Earl Godwin did not long enjoy his restored fortune.

He fell down in a fit at the King's table, and died upon the third day afterwards.

Harold succeeded to his power, and to a far higher place in the attachment of the people than his father had ever held.

By his valour he subdued the King's enemies in many bloody fights.

He was vigorous against rebels in Scotland--this was the time when Macbeth slew Duncan, upon which event our English Shakespeare, hundreds of years afterwards, wrote his great tragedy; and he killed the restless Welsh King GRIFFITH, and brought his head to England.
What Harold was doing at sea, when he was driven on the French coast by a tempest, is not at all certain; nor does it at all matter.