(Verses by Angilbert, who fought the battle -25 June 841 - on the side of Lothar)
(Verses by Angilbert, who fought the battle -25 June 841 - on the side of Lothar)Fontenoy they call its fountain, manor to the peasant known,
There the s*******r, there the ruin, of the blood of Frankish race;
Plains and forest shiver, shudder; horror wakes the silent marsh.
Neither dew nor shower nor rainfall yields its freshness to that field,
Where they fell, the strong men fighting, shrewdest in the battle"s skill,
Father, mother, sister, brother, friends, the dead with tears have wept.
And this deed of crime accomplished, which I here in verse have told,
Angibert myself I witnessed, fighting with the other men,
I alone of all remaining, in the battle"s foremost line.
On the side alike of Louis,
