sentences:  According to the 13th-century Norman verse The Song of Dermot and the Earl, Fitzharding acted as an intermediary between Dermot MacMurrough, the exiled King of Leinster, and Henry II in Dermot's attempts to raise Norman support for his planned recapture of Leinster.The song tells that Dermot was a guest in Fitzharding's house in Bristol.Some time before his death Fitzharding became a canon of the abbey he had founded.