Al'I'KMUX. 



from internal dissensions, owing to the succession bein-;- 

 between Heriold, and the sons of King Godfrey. Louis espousal 

 the cause of Heriold, and we read that in 



828. "Lothaire returned to his father at Aix-la-Chapelle. As they 

 proceeded to occupy the frontier of the Northmen, both in order to renew tin- 

 alliance between these peoples and the Franks, and to protect the interests of 

 Heriold, and when almost all the counts of Saxony had united for tins 

 purpose with the commanders of the marches, Heriold, too eager to hasten 

 the conclusion of the matter, broke the peace pledged and guaranteed by 

 hostages, and ravaged and burned some farms of the Northmen. Hearing this 

 the sons of Godfrey quickly collected troops, marched to the frontier, crossed 

 the Eider river, and falling upon our men, camped upon the bank, who were 

 not expecting such an attack, took the entrenchments, put the defenders to 

 flight, pillaged everything, and returned to camp with all their force." 



829. " He received the information that the Northmen contemplated the 

 seizure of the part of Saxony beyond the Elbe, and that, with this design, 

 their army had already approached our frontiers. Greatly troubled at this, 

 he sent into all the countries of the Franks to order the people in mass, to 

 march toward Saxony with all haste, and announced that he, in person, 

 would cross the Rhine at Nuitz in the middle of July." 



From the annals of Bertin we take the following extract : 



841. " The Danish pirates, from the shores of the North, made an irruption 

 into the territory of Rouen, and, carrying everywhere the fury of pillage, fire 

 and sword, gave up the city, the monks, and the rest of the people to carnage 

 and captivity, devastated all the monasteries and other places near the Seine, 

 and left them filled with terror, after having received much silver. ... To 

 Harold who, for his cause and to the prejudice of his father, had brought with 

 the other Danes much evil to the maritime districts, Lothair gave for his 

 services Walcheren and the neighbouring region a disgraceful forfeit." 



842. " At this time a fleet of Northmen came suddenly, at break of day, 

 into the district of Amiens, plundering, capturing, and killing persons of both 

 sexes, leaving nothing but buildings ransomed by silver." 



843. " The Northern pirates arrived in the city of Nantes, after having 

 killed the bishop and many of the priests, and laymen, and others, without 

 distinction of sex, and, having pillaged the city, ravaged the lower parts of 

 Aquitaine; fiually, reaching a certain island, causing earth to be brought 

 thither, they built houses to pass the winter, and there established themselves 

 as in a permanent abode. . . ." 



844. " The Northmen, having advanced by the Garonne as far as Toulouse, 

 plundered with impunity the region on every side ; a detachment proceeded 

 thence into Galicia, and there perished some from the bowmen (arbale triers) 

 sent against them, and some in a storm at sea; but others, penetrating farther 

 into Spain, had long and severe battles with the Saracens; but at length wen- 

 vanquished, and retreated." 



845. "The Northmen, with a hundred vessels, on March 20th, entered 

 the Seine, ravaging here and there, and arrived, without resistance, at I'ari-. 



