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Chronicon (Regino abbatis Prumiensis) (900 - 908) Regino of Prüm |
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a. 874 Eodem anno Salomon rex a Pasquitano et Vurfando ducibus suis dolo interficitur ... |
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In the same year Salomon king of the Bretons was treacherously killed by his generals [duces] Pacsweten and Wrhwant. After his death these two wanted to divide his realm between them but they disagreed on the shares because most of the people favoured Pacsweten’s faction;
and both sides began to wage war with the greatest force. Although Pacsweten had the greater following, he nevertheless engaged the help of the Northmen for money. He mingled them with his army to enhance its strength and then set out to wage war against his rival. [...] Realising that the strength of the kingdom had fallen to Pacsweten, Wrhwant’s followers began to drift away from him so that barely a thousand remained in the battle-line with him, and even these began to urge him to withdraw and avoid the danger of death – he could not hold back a countless multitude on his own with just a few men. To them he responded: ‘God forbid, brave comrades,’ he said, ‘that I do today what I have never done before, namely turn my back on my enemies and bring infamy on our glorious name. It is better to die nobly than to rescue one’s life dishonourably. Do not despair of victory. Let us test the forces of fortune with the enemy, for our salvation does not rest in numbers, but rather in God.’
[...] Pacsweten, seeing his men butchered like animals, fled with the few who had not yet been extinguished by the sword. Then the Northmen whom he had summoned to help him entered the monastery of the saintly Bishop Melanius and there, as they were accustomed to do, they barricaded themselves in until nthe following night when they scattered in flight and returned to their ships. This battle took place in a field near the city of Rennes. |
| Quotation source |
Regino of Prüm, Chronicle a. 874, ed. Kurze (MGH), p. 107; trans. by Maclean p. 170 |
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874 - 874 |
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