The meeting of the Wise men branded him as "nithing," the "utterly worthless," yet in a year his father wrested a new pardon from the King and restored him to his earldom.

The scandalous inlawing of such a criminal left Godwine alone in a struggle which soon arose with Eadward himself.

The king was a stranger in his realm, and his sympathies lay naturally with the home and friends of his youth and exile.

He spoke the Norman tongue.

He used in Norman fashion a seal for his charters.