Editing Hereward the Wake (section)

===Later life===
[[File:Alftruda.jpg|thumb|Hereward escorts Alftruda, illustration by [[Henry Courtney Selous]]]]
There are conflicting accounts about Hereward's life after the fall of Ely. The ''Gesta Herewardi'' says Hereward attempted to negotiate with William but was provoked into a fight with a man named Ogger. The fight led to his capture and imprisonment. His followers, however, liberated him when he was being transferred from one castle to another. Hereward's former gaoler persuaded the king to negotiate once more, and he was eventually pardoned by William and lived the rest of his life in relative peace. It also says that he married a second wife after Turfida entered a convent.<ref name = "norm"/> She is said have been called Alftruda and was the widow of Earl [[Dolfin of Carlisle|Dolfin]].<ref name = "barn">David Roffe, "Hereward 'the Wake' and the Barony of Bourne: a Reassessment of a Fenland Legend", ''Lincolnshire History and Archaeology'', 29 (1994), 7–10.</ref>

[[Geoffrey Gaimar]], in his ''[[Estoire des Engleis]]'', says instead that Hereward lived for some time as an outlaw in the Fens, but that as he was on the verge of making peace with William, he was set upon and killed by a group of Norman knights.<ref>''ibid.''</ref> It is also possible that Hereward received no pardon and went into exile, never to be heard from again; this was in fact the fate of many prominent Englishmen after the Conquest.<ref>Rex, Peter (2005) ''Hereward: the last Englishman'' Chalford: Tempus, Chapter 10, {{ISBN|0-7524-3318-0}}</ref> Ogger ("Oger the Breton"), either the person Hereward is supposed to have fought or an heir, appears to have taken over his lands.<ref name = "norm"/> Joseph Harrop in his 1764 ''A New History of England'', suggests that after his escape from Ely, Hereward went to Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Harrop|title=A New History of England, from the time of its first invasion by the Romans to the year 1727|date=1764|publisher=J. Harrop}}</ref>