hen all the members of the council, together with the proud tyrant,
were struck blind; the guard or rather the method of destruction they devised for our land was that the ferocious Saxons (name not to be spoken!), hated by man and God, should be let into the island like wolves into the fold, to beat back the peoples of the North . Nothing more destructive, nothing more bitter has ever befallen the land. How utter the blindness of their minds! How desperate and crass the stupidity! What palpable darkness must have enveloped them! Of their own free will they invited under the same roof a people whom, when absent, they feared worse than death itself.