e, Muratori, St. Marc, &c., whom I have always
consulted, and never copied. * Note: M. Goutier d'Arc has discovered
a translation of the Chronicle of Aime, monk of Mont Cassino, a
contemporary of the first Norman invaders of Italy. He has made use of
it in his Histoire des Conquetes des Normands, and added a summary of
its contents. This work was quoted by later writers, but was supposed to
have been entirely lost.--M.]

[Footnote 16: Some of the first converts were baptized ten or twelve
times, for the sake of the white garment usually given at this ceremony.
At the funeral of Rollo, the gifts to monasteries for the repose of his
soul were accompanied by a sacrifice of one hundred captives. But in a
generation or two, the national change was pure and general.]

[Footnote 17: The Danish language was still spoken by the Normans
of Bayeux on the sea-coast, at a time (A.D. 940) when it was already
forgotten at Rouen, in the court and capital. Quem (Richard I.)
confestim pater Baiocas mittens Botoni militiae suae principi nutriendum
tradidit, ut, ibi lingua eruditus Danica, suis exterisque hominibus
sciret aperte dare responsa, (Wilhelm. Gemeticensis de Ducibus
Normannis, l. iii. c. 8, p. 623, edit. Camden.) Of the vernacular and
favorite idiom of William the Conqueror, (A.D. 1035,) Selden (Opera,
tom. ii. p. 1640-1656) has given a specimen, obsolete and obscure even
to antiquarians and lawyers.]

[Footnote 1711: A band of Normans returning from the Holy Land had
rescued the city of Salerno from the attack of a numerous fleet of
Saracens. Gainar, the Lombard prince of Salerno wished to retain them in
his service and take them into his pay. They answered, "We fight for our
religion, and not for money." Gaimar entreated them to send some
Norman knights to his court. This seems to have been the origin of the
connection of the Normans with Italy. See Histoire des Conquetes des
Normands par Goutier d'Arc, l. i. c. i., Paris, 1830.--M.]

[Footnote 18: See Leandro Alberti (Descrizione d'Italia, p. 250) and
Baronius, (A.D. 493, No. 43.) If the archangel inherited the temple
and oracle, perhaps the cavern, of old Calchas the soothsayer, (Strab.
Geograph l. vi. p. 435, 436,) the Catholics (on this occasion) have
surpassed the Greeks in the elegance of their superstition.]

[Footnote 1811: Nine out of ten perished in the field. Chronique d'Aime,
tom. i. p. 21 quoted by M Goutier d'Arc, p. 42.--M.]

[Footnote 19: See the first bo