54. Pyrenaeos montes usque Perpinianum subjecit, is the
expression of Rorico, which betrays his recent date, since
Perpignan did not exist before the tenth century (Marca
Hispanica, p. 458). This florid and fabulous writer (perhaps
a monk of Amiens - see the Abbe le Boeuf, Mem. de
l'Academie, tom. xvii. p. 228-245) relates, in the
allegoncal character of a shepherd, the general history of
his countrymen the Franks; but his narrative ends with the
death of Clovis.