30/48 Ditcar the monk is called to see it, and to say whether it is that of Morvan; but he has to wash the mass of disfigurement, and to partially adjust the hair, before he can pronounce that it is really Morvan's. There is then no more doubt; resistance is now impossible; the widow, the family, and the servants of Morvan arrive, are brought before Louis the Debonnair, accept all the conditions imposed upon them, and the Franks withdraw with the boast that Brittany is henceforth their tributary. (_Faits et testes de Louis le Picux,_ a poem by Ermold le Noir, in M.Guizot's _Collection des Memoires relatifs L'Histoire de France,_ t.iv., p. 1-113 .-- Fauriel, _Histoire de la Gaule,_ etc., t. |