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A History of the Franks

Gregory of Tours

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 594 CE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 700

At the spring muster, a king walks the ranks until he finds the soldier who once split a church ewer rather than let him have it. He throws the man's axe on the ground, and as he stoops for it, opens his head: thus you did at Soissons.

and although my speech is rude, I have been unable to be silent as to the struggles between the wicked and the upright
A History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours

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