↑ DeVries, K., The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999 ISBN 0-85115-763-7
↑ David Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, Penguin Books, 1983, pp. 69-70; Elisabeth van Houts, ed. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 158-61
↑ Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, pp. 69-70. Edward may not have been blameless in this situation, as at least one other man, Sweyn II of Denmark, also thought Edward had promised him the succession.
↑ Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, pp. 71-72
↑ Frank Barlow, Edward the Confessor, University of California Press: Los Angeles, 1970, p. 251. Barlow points out that the author of the Vita, who appears to have looked favorably on Harold, was writing after the Conquest and may have been intentionally vague.
