Stelle Fuit autem idem aduersarius Hinguar...; (Vita Sancti Eadmundi regis Anglorum et martyris (985 - 987), Ch. 5 (ed. Winterbottom, pp. 71-2)) [4888]

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Text Vita Sancti Eadmundi regis Anglorum et martyris (985 - 987) Abbo of Fleury
Quotation Fuit autem idem aduersarius Hinguar uocabulo dictus, qui cum altero, Ubba nomine, ejusdem peruersitatis homine, nisi diuina inpediretur miseratione conatus est in exterminium adducere totius fines Brittanniae. Nec mirum, cum uenerint indurati frigore suae malitiae ab illo terrae uertice quo sedem suam posuit qui per elationem Altissimo similis esse concupiuit. Denique constat iuxta prophetae uaticinium quod ab aquilone uenit omne malum, sicut plus aequo didicere, perperam passi aduersos iactus cadentis tesserae, qui aquilonalium gentium experti sunt seuitiam: quas certum est adeo crudeles esse naturali ferocitate ut nesciant malis hominum mitescere, quandoquidem quidam ex eis populi uescuntur humanis carnibus, qui ex facto Greca appellatione Anthropofagi uocantur. Talesque nationes abundant plurimae infra Scithiam prope Hyperboreos montes, quae antichristum, ut legimus, secuturae sunt ante omnes gentes, ut absque ulla miseratione pascantur hominum cruciatibus, qui characterem bestiae noluerint circumferre in frontibus. Vnde iam inquietando Christicolas, pacem cum eis habere nequeunt: maxime Dani, occidentis regionibus nimium uicini, quoniam circa eas piratycam exercent frequentibus latrociniis.
Translation It was the same adversary called Ingvar: who, with another, named Hubba, a man of equal wickedness, attempted to reduce all of Britain to ruins, if divine pity had not prevented him. It is no wonder that, when they (Ingvar and Hubba, enemies of St Eadmund) came, they were hardened by the coldness of malice from the top of the world, where he who, in his pride, desired to be like the most high, set up his seat. For it is true, according to the words of the prophet, that all evil comes from the North; for more than is fair, those who have wrongly suffered the fate of an adverse roll of the die have experienced the savagery of the northern peoples; who, it is certain, are cruel from a natural ferocity, to the extent that they do not know how to grow more mild in the evils they do mankind. Indeed one of these peoples eat human flesh, and are called Anthropophagi, from the Greek. Many such nations abound below Scythia near the Hyperborean mountains, who shall, as we read, follow the Antichrist before all peoples, so that they can pitilessly feast on the sufferings of all humans who do not wish to wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads. Hence already molesting Christians, they desire no peace with them: most of all the Danes, those closest to the western regions, who frequently make piratical raids on them. (Trans. Laura Gazzoli)
Quotation source Ch. 5 (ed. Winterbottom, pp. 71-2)
Temporal Coverage 866 - 870
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