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Chronicon (Regino abbatis Prumiensis) (900 - 908) Regino of Prüm |
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a. 888 [886] Eodem anno Nortmanni, qui Parisiorum urbem obsidebant, miram et inauditam rem, non solum nostra, sed etiam superiore aetate, fecerunt. nam cum civitatem inexpugnabilem esse persensissent, omni virtute omnique ingenio laborare coepertunt, quatinus urbe post tergum relicta classem cum omnibus copiis per Sequanam sursum possent evehere et sic Hionnam fluvium ingredientes Burgundiae findes absque obstaculo penetrarent. Civibus autem omni instantia prohibentibus ascensum fluminis, naves per siccum plus quam duorum passuum milibus trahunt et taliter declinato omini periculo iterum eas Sequanae fluentis inmergunt; et post paululum Sequanam relinquentes Hionnam, ut disposuerant, et sub omni celeritate navigantes Senonis applicuerunt, ibique castris positis per continuos sex menses eandem urbem obsidione claudunt totamque pene Burgundiam rapinis, caedibus ac incendiis demoliuntur. Sed civibus fortiter repugnantibus, Deo protegente, nequaquam prefatam civitatem capere potuerunt, quamquam omni laborum sudore omniumque artium et machinamentorum ingenio id multipliciter pertemptassent. |
| Translation |
a. 888: In that same year the Northmen who were besieging the town of Paris achieved an amazing feat unheard of not only in our times, but also in past ages. For when they realised that the town could not be taken, they began to prepare with all their strength and cunning to leave the city behind them and move their fleet with all their troops up the Seine and so, by entering the River Yonne, cross the frontiers of Burgundy unobstructed. However, because the citizens made every effort to stop them going upriver, they dragged their ships across dry land for more than two miles, and having thus avoided all danger they plunged them once more into the waters of the Seine. After a short distance they left the Seine and, as they had planned, navigated the Yonne with all speed, landing at Sens. There they made camp and for six continuous months they blockaded the same town with a siege and laid waste to almost the whole of Burgundy with murder, pillage and fire. But because the citizens, protected by God, bravely fought them off, they were completely unable to take the said city, although they attempted it repeatedly with all the sweat of their labour and using all their trickery and tools. |
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Regino of Prüm, Chronicle II, ed. Kurze (MGH), p. 130-1; trans. by Maclean p. 201-2 |
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888 - 888 |
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