ABSTRACT
Who ever heard so many different languages in a single army? For amongst it there were Franciens, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Allobroges, Lotharingians, Swabians, Bavarians, Normans, Englishmen, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians. If any Breton or German had wished to question me, I would not have known how to reply. Yet, despite the diversity of our tongues, we seemed to be brothers united under God.2
