Note 128 — BOOK III. (continued 2)
William Robson translation
It is surprising that Raoul de Caen, who describes this battle, and in epic verse too, has related no marvellous circumstance. Raymond d’Agiles makes no mention of the heavenly legion, but he says: Multiplicavit insuper adeo Dominus exercitum nostrum, ut qui ante pugnam pauciores eramus quàm hostes, in bello plures eis fuimus. Oderic Vital speaks thus of the legion which appeared to descend from heaven: Ecce, Deo gratias, ab ipsis montanis visus est exire exercitus innumerabilis, albis equis insidentes, et in manibus Candida vexilla præferentes. Hoc multi viderunt Christianorum, et sicut putant, gentilium, et hæsitantes, mirabantur quidnam esset. Tandem utrique cognoverunt signum de cœlo factum, et duces illius agminis, sanctos martyres Georgium, Demetrium, et Theodorum sua signa ferentes præcedere cognoverunt. Sarracenis multus timor inhæsit, et Christianis spes melior crevit.—Od. Vital. lib. ix. Robert the Monk and Baldric relate the same circumstance and the same details.