A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . - hand-to-hand encounter he drove 220 RISE OF THE SAXOh POWER AND HENRY I. the Northmen toward the other side and out of the camp, wherethousands of them perished in the Dyle. In panic-stricken flightthe defeated Northmen hastened to their ships, and sailed back totheir native land. After this glorious day (November 1, 891),which quite threw into the shade the much-lauded victory of LouisIII., the young West-Frankish king, at Saucourt (see p. 156), thepeople of the German coast breathed freely once more; f
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . - hand-to-hand encounter he drove 220 RISE OF THE SAXOh POWER AND HENRY I. the Northmen toward the other side and out of the camp, wherethousands of them perished in the Dyle. In panic-stricken flightthe defeated Northmen hastened to their ships, and sailed back totheir native land. After this glorious day (November 1, 891),which quite threw into the shade the much-lauded victory of LouisIII., the young West-Frankish king, at Saucourt (see p. 156), thepeople of the German coast breathed freely once more; for theNorthmen (Fig. 53), after this severe lesson, preferred to seekbooty more safely elsewhere. They now left the East^Frankishkingdom undisturbed, and fell with double fury upon the West-. JfiG. öa. — Norman Soldiers. From a miniature in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. (Strutt.) Franks, and the Saxons of England. But Arnulfs reputation wasestablished and heightened by this victory. He had performed thetask which the nation had set him by raising him to the throne. In the southeast, moreover, the Moravians ceased to be formida-ble after the death of Svatopluk in 894. But while Arnulf wasthus vigorously fulfilling his kingly mission abroad, he unwiselyundermined his own power within the kingdom by striving moreand more openly to enlarge his prerogatives, and transform his elec-tive monarchy into a hereditary one. Yet he had not even a legiti-mate child, but only two illegitimate sons, Zwentibold (Fig. 54)and Rastolf. As early as June of 880, at an imperial assembly in ARNULF AXD THE CHURCH. 221 Forchheiin, lie demanded that Zwentibold should be designated ashis successor, and was promised that this should be done if his wifeOta should not bear him another son. Arnulf now pr
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