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They earned their pardon, but on this condition, however, that, if hereafter they broke their engagements, they would be deprived of country and liberty.

A great number amongst them had themselves baptized on this occasion; but it was with far from sincere intentions that they had testified a desire to become Christians." [Illustration: Charlemagne inflicting Baptism upon the Saxons----215] There had been absent from this great meeting a Saxon chieftain called Wittikind, son of Wernekind, king of the Saxons at the north of the Elbe.
He had espoused the sister of Siegfried, king of the Danes; and he was the friend of Ratbod, king of the Frisons.