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It was here, on that cliff, as they came near that castle 
(Kastel, Danish), that they encountered Harold Godwinson. 
Here, throughout the lofty cliffs, above and along the banks 
of the Went, are rocks scarped and entrenchments every- 
where to he found; a position, the first rising ground and 
strongest, as you sail up “Humber flude”; and here, as 
Laughton- en-le-Mor thing in Northumbria, and TJpsal in 
Sweden, a thing mound, flattened at the top. It was thither 
they were going to renew the kingdom, and, as at TJpsal, 
Nidaros, Yiburg, and all the other places I have fore-men- 
tioned, Harold, like Edred, must there receive the kingdom. 
The next stage in the eventful proceedings of that remarkable 
day, is the battle itself. I have the greatest faith in local 
nomenclature; and here, just within sight of Tada, within 
reach of Kicall, St. Wilfrid’s, Greave-field, Standing-bridge, 
Castle-hill, King’s-Land-wood, we find King’s Standard-hill, 
King’s Standard- wood : it was here, surely, that king Harold 
Sigurdson’s Standard was set up, and the “ Land-ravager,” 
or “Devastator of the Earth” was unfurled, for the last time 
victorious. It was here that Harold Hardrada fondly hoped 
he could hold his own until his reinforcements from his 
ships near Kicall should arrive. From early morn, all day 
long, the wave of battle surged and broke around that 
Standard Hill, and it was not until the sun was westward in 
the horizon that the little remnant of that gallant host 
turned their backs upon that field where, with Harold the 
Hardy, the hero of a hundred fights, and Tosti his com- 
panion alike in arms and prowess disdaining to purchase a 
kingdom and safety at the cost of life and honour, lay 
the best born and bravest of the Norwegian people, in huge 
hecatombs, dying and wounded and dead ! There, where 
memory and tradition and local nomenclature have ever 
called the spot by the old Danish- spelt name of Greave. 
“ Grove ” is but of yesterday; in the tithe or inclosure map of 
