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In 845 a party of them assailed and took Paris, from which they were bought off by the cowardly and ineffective method of ransom, seven thousand pounds of silver being paid them.
S. C. C. M. I kiss the sacred feet of Your Majesty, Licenclado Giles Translated from the original in the Archivo general in Sijoncas Astado: Legajo 18, fol. 845.
In the same period Glendalough was plundered seven times; Clonard four times; Clonmacnois five times betnveen 838 and 845, and often afterwards. These are only samples: there were scores of the institutions, and they were all sacked, burnt, plundered, and ravaged, again and again.
There are women enthroned, and who deserve to be, in Germany as in other countries; but taken in the mass, speaking in hundreds of thousands, it is not an inaccurate picture to say that the women are not taken seriously in Germany except as mothers and servants. The census of 1910 shows that there are 32,040,166 men in Germany and 32,885,827 women, or 845,661 more women than men.
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