A group of Arabs furiously attack a pilgrimage after failed negotiations, believing their leaders to have been killed, but the pilgrims stop them by using the captured leaders as shields and threatening to kill them.
Alacritatem tantam, repente ex trepidis rebus et ultima desperatione coortam, nimium admirati Arabes, nec aliam novitatis huius causam suspicati, quam quod de principibus suis sumptum fuisset supplicium, infestissimis animis in pugnam ruunt et facto grege per arma, per viro in castra perrumpere parant. Et acta res foret, nisi mature orto consilio christiani vinctos eo loco principes statuerent, ubi atrocissima vis hostium et creberrimus telorum imber incumbebat, apposito super capita eorum spiculatore, qui districtum in manibus gladium tenens clamitabat per interpretem, nisi ab obpugnatione quiescerent, non armis se adversum eos, sed principum capitibus dimicaturos. Tum ipsi principes, quos preter vinculorum acerbitatem imminens quoque cervicibus gladius vehementer angebat, cum magno eiulatu suos obtestabantur, ut moderatins agerent, ne obstinate certamen hostibus inferentes eos ad supplicium necemque suam, cum incisa spes esset veniae, infiammarent. Patris periculo attonitus filius ducis Arabum, quem ad portam atrii a patre causa presidii relictum supra memoravi, citato gradu in confertissimos suorum cuneos se dedit et furentis exercitus impetum voce et manu increpitans retinuit et tela in hostes iacere prohibuit, quae non hostes, ut ipsi putarent, sed principes sui propriis pectoribus excepturi forent.
Translation :
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Edition :
Lampert von Hersfeld - Annalen, In: A. Schmidt, W. D. Fritz (FSGA 13), Darmstadt.
Remark :
long-term consequence: The governor of Ramla arrived shortly afterwards, causing the besieging Arabs to flee. He thanked the pilgrims for capturing their leaders and escorted them to Ramla and then Jerusalem, in exchange for a monetary sum.
