We will touch nothing in the town, and we undertake to preserve all your property, both yours and that of Eudes." The archbishop replied at once: "This city has been confided to us by the Emperor Charles, who is, after God, the king and master of the powers of the earth.

Holding under his rule almost all the world, he confided it to us, with the assurance that we should suffer no harm to come to the kingdom, but should keep it for him safe and sure.

If it had happened that the defence of these walls had been committed to your hands, as it has been committed to mine, what would you have done had such a demand been made upon you?
Would you have granted the demand ?" "If I had granted it," Siegfroi replied, "may my head fall under the axe and serve as food for dogs.

Nevertheless, if you do not grant our demands, by day we will overwhelm your city with our darts, and with poisoned arrows by night.

You shall suffer all the horrors of hunger, and year after year we will return and make a ruin of your city." Without another word he turned, and followed by his companions, strode through the streets of Paris, and taking his place in the boat returned to his camp.
At daybreak the next morning the Norsemen were seen crowding into their ships.