Iterum circa sollempnitatem sancti Petri Atrebatis venerunt omnesque quos ibi repperere interfecere et circuita omni terra, ferro et igne cuncta vastantes, sani revertuntur ad castra.
Translation :
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Edition :
B. von Simson, Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini (MGH SS rer. Germ., 12), 1909, 40-82.
Remark :
titel: This was the second attack on Arras in the Winter of 880/881, the town having been their first target of plunder two months earlier.
Notes :
For the first attack on Arras in the same winter, refer to: "Northmen kill all they can find in the area of Arras and the monastery St. Vaast."
