[Footnote 32: These numbers are stated by Paul Warnefrid,
the deacon of Aquileia, (de Gestis Langobard. l. vi. p.
921, edit. Grot.,) and Anastasius, the librarian of the
Roman church, (in Vit. Gregorii II.,) who tells a miraculous
story of three consecrated sponges, which rendered
invulnerable the French soldiers, among whom they had been
shared It should seem, that in his letters to the pope,
Eudes usurped the honor of the victory, from which he is
chastised by the French annalists, who, with equal
falsehood, accuse him of inviting the Saracens.]