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| ID |
5066 |
| Text |
De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (996 - 1020) Dudo of Saint-Quentin |
| Quotation |
Illis vero in diebus senex quidam erat in partibus Daciae, omnium rerum affluentia locupletissimus, innumerabiliumque militum frequentia unique secus constipatus: qui nunquam colla suae cervicis cuipiam regi subegit nec cujuslibet manibus, gratia servitii, manus suas commendando commisit. Qui Daciae regnum pene universum possidens, affines Daciae et Alaniae terras sibi vindicavit, populosque sibi praeliis quamplurimis vi et potestate subjugavit. Erat enim omnium Orientalium praestantiori virtute praepotentissimus, cunctorum exaggerato omnium virtutum cumulo praecellentissimus. Defuncto vero illo, superstiterunt duo filii ejus, armis strenui, bellis edocti, corpore pulcherrimi, animositate robustissimi. Quorum vero major natu ROLLO, alter vero junior GURIM nuncupabantur. |
| Translation |
However, in those days there was an old man in the land of Dacia who was most abundantly enriched with goods and was attended on every side by unaccountable throngs of warriors. Never had he bowed the nape of his neck to any king, nor had he done service or entrusted his own hands into the hands of any man by way of commendation. As owner of almost the whole of the kingdom of Dacia, he won for himself lands adjacent to Dacia and Alania and subjected their peoples to his might and power in several battles. For he was the most potent of all the Easterners for his outstanding courage, and he excelled them all with his high-piled accumulation of all the virtues. And when he died, two of his sons survived him; and they were vigorous in arms, skilled in war, most handsome in body, and most steadfast in courage. And the elder of them was called ROLLO, and the younger GURIM. (Translation: Eric Christensen 1998, pp. 25-6) |
| Quotation source |
ii.2 (p. 141) |
| Temporal Coverage |
850 - 900 |
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| Comment |
The events described are legendary, but logically fall in the latter half of the ninth century. |
