Note 3 — BOOK XI.
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—Page 389, stanza xlviii.
And smote the Heathen with the Angel's sword.
The Bishops Germanus and Lupus, having baptized the Britains in the river Alyn, led them against the Picts and Saxons, to the cry of "Alleluia." The cry itself, uttered with all the enthusiasm of the Christian host, struck terror into the enemy, who at once took to flight. Most of those who escaped the sword perished in the river. This victory, achieved at Maes-Garmon, was called "Victoria Alleluiatica."—Brit. Eccles. Antiq., 335; Bed., lib. i. c. i. 20.