(b) Abbonis Monachi S. Germani Parisiensis, _De Bellis Parisiacae Urbis, et Odonis Comitis, post Regis, adversus Northmannos urbem ipsam obsidentes, sub Carolo Crasso Imp. ac Rege Francorum_ [Abbo's "Wars of Count Odo with the Northmen in the Reign of Charles the Fat"]. Text in Bouquet, _Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France_, Vol. VIII., pp. 4-26. (c) _Chronique de Saint-Denys d'apres Dudo et Guillaume de Jumieges_ ["Chronicle of St. Denys based on Dudo and William of Jumieges"], Vol. III., p. 105. (a) THE EARLIER RAVAGES OF THE NORTHMEN =843=. Pirates of the Northmen's race came to Nantes, killed the bishop and many of the clergy and laymen, both men and women, and pillaged the city. Thence they set out to plunder the lands of lower Aquitaine. At length they arrived at a certain island[216] and carried materials thither from the mainland to build themselves houses; and they settled there for the winter, as if that were to be their permanent dwelling-place. =844.= The Northmen ascended the Garonne as far as Toulouse and pillaged the lands along both banks with impunity. Some, after leaving this region went into Galicia[217] and perished, part of them by the attacks of the cross-bowmen who had come to resist them, part by being overwhelmed by a storm at sea. But others of them went farther into Spain and engaged in long and desperate combats with the Saracens; defeated in the end, they withdrew. [Sidenote: The Northmen bought off at Paris] =845.= The Northmen with a hundred ships entered the Seine on the twentieth of March and, after ravaging first one bank and then the other, came without meeting any resistance to Paris. Charles[218] resolved to hold out against them; but seeing the impossibility of gaining a victory, he made with them a certain agreement and by a gift of 7,000 livres he bought them off from advancing farther and persuaded them to return. Euric, king of the Northmen, advanced, with six hundred vessels, along the course of the River Elbe to attack Louis of Germany.[219] The Saxons prepared to meet him, gave battle, and with the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ won the victory. The Northmen returned [from Paris] down the Seine and coming to the ocean pillaged, destroyed, and burned all the regions along the coast. =846.= The Danish pirates landed in Frisia.[220] They were able to force from the people whatever contributions they wished and, being victors in battle, they remained masters of almost the entire province. =847.= The Northmen made their appearance in the part of Gaul inhabited by the Britons[221] and won three victories. Nomenoe,[222] although defeated, at length succeeded in buying them off with presents and getting them out of his country. [Sidenote: The burning of Tours]