[91] None of the Latin historians have given us the name of the governor of Edessa. The name of Theodore is found in the History of Matthew of Edessa, from which we have taken, according to the translation of M. Corbied, several curious details, which would be sought for in vain elsewhere.
[92] Intra lineam interulam, guam nos vocamus comisiam, nudum intrare eum, faciens, sibi adstrinxit; et deinde omnia osculo libata firmavit, idem et mulier post modum fecit.—Guib. Abb. lib. iii. ad finem.
[93] In the first book of the Jerusalem Delivered, when the Eternal turns his eyes on the Crusaders, he sees in Edessa the ambitious Baldwin, who only aspires to human grandeurs, with which he is solely occupied.
[94] At the present day named Aassy ’the Rebel), or el Macloub, the Reversed, because it flows from south to north, an opposite direction to that of the other rivers of the same country.
[95] Ancient Antioch is not to be recognised in the straggling village that the Turks call Antakié; it is even sufficiently difficult to ascertain its ancient extent. We may consult the description of it given by Pococke and Drummond, and compare it with that which is said by Raymond d’Agiles. Albert d’Aix, William of Tyre, and the ancient historians.
[96] The name of this Seljoucide prince has been disfigured by the greater part of the Latin historians. Tudebode and the monk Robert call him Cassianus; Foucher de Chartres, Gratianus; William of Tyre, Acxianus; Albert d’Aix, Darsianus; M. de Guignes, and the greater part of the Orientalists, call him, after Abulfeda, Bayhistan; but in other Oriental historians he is named Akby Syran ’brother of the black), which is more conformable to the corrupt name of Accien, which he bears in our “History of the Crusades.”
[97] Plurimum quoque interest ad disciplinam militiæ, insuescere milites nostros, non solum partâ victoriâ frui, sed si etiam res sit lentior, pati tædium, et quamvis seræ spei exitum exspectare, nec sicut æstivas aves, instante hyeme, tecta ac recessum circumspicere.—Accolti, de Bello contra Turcas, lib. ii.
[98] Alearum ludo pariter recreari et occupari cum matronâ quâdam, quæ magnæ erat ingenuitatis et formositatis. Matronam vero vivam, et intactam armis, rapientes traxerunt in urbem, per totam noctem immoderatæ libidinis suæ incesto concubitu eam vexantes, nihilque humanitatis in eam exhibentes.—Alb. Ag. lib. iii. p. 46.
[99] We have taken the details of the siege of Antioch from the following authors: William of Tyre, Albert d’Aix, Baudry, Robert, Tudebode, Raymond d’Agiles, Guibert, Raoul de Caen, Foucher de Chartres, Oderic-Vital, Paul Emile, Bernard Thesaurius, Accolti, Duchat, Mailly, De Guignes, Albufaradge, &c. &c.
[100] The historian of Burgundy, Urbain Plancher, without alleging any reason, and without quoting any authority, treats this event as a fable, although it is attested by William of Tyre, Albert d’Aix, and several other nearly contemporary historians. Mallet says nothing of it in his “History of Denmark;” nevertheless Langbeck, in his collection of the Danish historians, says he has seen a basso-relievo, in bronze, in which the Sweno, of whom this history speaks, is represented with the attributes of a Crusader. This basso-relievo was executed by the order of Christian V.; at the bottom of the portrait of Sweno are several Latin verses which describe his glorious and tragical death. The “Scriptores Rerum Danicarum” may be consulted for the dissertation in which Langbeck discusses the passages of the ancient historians, and clearly demonstrates the truth of their accounts. This dissertation is entitled, “Infelix Suenonis Danici adversus Turcas.”