Anteque auroram surgentes cum omni multitudine ad ipsam accurrerunt turrim eamque vallantes, ne adiutorium e civitate illis superveniret, obpugnare coeperunt. Illis vero qui intra turrim erant acriter resistentibus, fit clamor multitudinis usque in caelum, episcopo desuper muro civitatis cum omnibus qui in civitate erant nimis flentibus, eo quod suis subvenire non possent, et quia nil aliud agere poterat, Christo eos commendabat. At Nortmanni cum impetu portam ipsius turris adeunt ignemque subponunt, et hi qui infra erant fracti vulneribus et incendio capiuntur atque ad obprobrium Christianorum diversis interficiuntur modis atque in flumine praecipitantur. Indeque ipsam turrim destruunt.
Translation :
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Edition :
B. von Simson, Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini (MGH SS rer. Germ., 12), 1909, 40-82.
Remark :
context: The Northmen previously tried several times to destroy the tower, but only now succeeded because a bridge was broken by swelling waters of the Seine.
Notes :
The captured soldiers are killed afterwards: "Northmen kill captured defenders of a tower at Paris and throw their bodies into the Seine."
