Edith Swan-Neck

Lady Edith Swan-Neck was the wife of King Harold. She, along with Countess Gytha, falsely identified the body of her husband on the battlefields of Hastings on 14 October 1066. This act allowed her husband to be "reborn" as Hereward the Wake, a formidable Saxon guerrilla warrior. (PROSE: The Real Hereward)