The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

On the death of King Edward the Confessor in January, 1066, months before the Norman Invasion Vol I; The Birth of Britain. - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)