COIFI, the chief priest of the old religion, made a great speech on the occasion.

In this discourse, he told the people that he had found out the old gods to be impostors.

'I am quite satisfied of it,' he said.

'Look at me! I have been serving them all my life, and they have done nothing for me; whereas, if they had been really powerful, they could not have decently done less, in return for all I have done for them, than make my fortune.
As they have never made my fortune, I am quite convinced they are impostors!' When this singular priest had finished speaking, he hastily armed himself with sword and lance, mounted a war-horse, rode at a furious gallop in sight of all the people to the temple, and flung his lance against it as an insult.

From that time, the Christian religion spread itself among the Saxons, and became their faith.
The next very famous prince was EGBERT.