The biographer of St. Leo IX. pours his holy venom on the Normans.
Videns indisciplinatam et alienam gentem Normannorum, crudeli et inaudita rabie, et plusquam Pagana impietate, adversus ecclesias Dei insurgere, passim Christianos trucidare, etc., (Wibert, c. 6).
The honest Apulian (l. ii. p. 259) says calmly of their accuser,
Veris commiscens fallacia.