| Keywords |
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| ID |
5033 |
| Text |
Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri tres (967 - 973) Widukind of Corvey |
| Quotation |
Hunc quidam ex orientalibus Francis adiens nomine Oda, vir fortis et prudens, egitque consilio suo, ut cum Danis bene pugnaretur, qui iam multis annis Karoli regnum vexabant, unaque die ex eis ad centum milia caederentur. |
| Translation |
One of the east Franks, a man named Odo, who was brave and wise, came to Charles and offered a plan to defeat the Danes, who had disturbed Charles’s kingdom for many years.196 And so it happened that on one day, as many as one hundred thousand of the Danes were killed. (Trans. Bacharach, pp. 41-2) |
| Summary |
Widukind relates the story of Otto, father of Henry I. Probably a fanciful derivation from the defence of Paris in 886. |
| Quotation source |
i.29 (p. 41) |
| Temporal Coverage |
886 - 886 |
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