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.