This appearance of the comet is also noted in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". Eilmer of Malmesbury may have seen Halley in 989 and 1066, as recorded by William of Malmsbury "Not long after, a comet, portending (they say) a change in governments, appeared, trailing its long flaming hair through the empty sky: concerning which there was a fine saying of a monk of our monastery called Æthelmær. Crouching in terror at the sight of the gleaming star, ‘You've come, have you?’, he said. ‘You've come, you source of tears to many mothers. It is long since I saw you; but as I see you now you are much more terrible, for I see you brandishing the downfall of my country.’"