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Updated: June 12, 2025
This additional phenomenon added to the terror of Neroweg and his leudes; the whole troop threw themselves down flat upon their faces and murmured in their fright: "Oh Lord! Oh Lord! Have mercy upon us! Oh Lord, turn Your wrath from us!" And what was it that actually tumbled down from the tree? It was Bishop Cautin, and his was the voice that had sounded from on high.
"You are a Catholic a son of our holy Church by reason of which you must respect and obey me as your father in Christ!" "Bishop, you are trying to confuse me by such language, but I will not be duped by you. Our great King Clovis conquered and subjugated Gaul at the head of his brave leudes. My father Gonthram Neroweg was one of his warriors, and " "You lie, count!
It is likewise agreed that neither of the two kings shall solicit the Leudes of the other or receive them if they offer themselves; and if, peradventure, any of these Leudes shall think it necessary, in consequence of some fault, to take refuge with the other king, he shall be absolved according to the nature of his fault and given back.
The bishop again fills another large cup to the Frank, saying: "Count I repeat it the twenty gold sous, the meadow lands and the little blonde female slave either I must have them, or you get no absolution!" "Bishop! I shall fall upon your house with all my leudes and sack it; I shall roast you over a slow fire and you will give me absolution " "Impious man! Sacrilegious blasphemer! Pharaoh!
"And from the heavens above you will throw your blessings upon us, great and good St. Cautin!" "Bishop, do you hear these poor old women? You sowed, now you are harvesting. Come, my Vagres, draw the rope!" Once more the hermit interposed in order to protect the prelate. At that moment the Vagres who were on the carts were heard crying: "The leudes! The Frankish warriors!"
The voice suddenly stopped short; the branches of a tall oak, near which Neroweg and his leudes lay upon their knees, bent and cracked under the weight of a heavy body that was rolling down, and thus broke its fall as it landed upon the ground, but so near to the count that the latter narrowly escaped being crushed by it.
The count went back to the banquet hall with his leudes, and there proceeded to drink himself drunk before retiring to his wife in the women's apartment.
His leudes followed his example; they, in turn, took to their mounts, and leaving their arms behind in the banquet hall, fled tumultuously, repeating in terror: "The demons! The demons!" The episcopal villa has been invaded by the Vagres. They carried the place, and they did so without striking a blow. Who is he who is celebrating night mass in the bishop's chapel?
The Vagres, who just announced the approach of Count Neroweg and his leudes, had taken a path across the thicket that was impracticable for the horses of the Franks, a good deal shorter than the road that these were obliged to take in order to arrive at the clearing where the Vagres had halted for the night.
"King Clotaire ordered a levy of men, but the beneficiary seigneurs feared that, if they parted with their leudes, their burgs would remain unprotected and either at the mercy of the slaves or exposed to attacks from our band. They sent but few men in answer to the King's summons. And so we were given fresh opportunities and twice we beat the Franks in pitched encounters.
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