il se rendit aux prières, 'hegavewayto . .' Cf

se rendre au.v /armes de quelqit un.

se rendre aux raisons de quelqu'un.

g. froc. ' cowl.'

,, 10. monture, 'mount,' 'steed. '

., 12. troupe, qvii partit . . voisines : before August 15 a crowd of sonie 60,000 men and women, without a single quality necded for such an enterprise (drawn niainly froni the lands between the Schekit and the Pyrénées, i.e. Champagne and Burgimdy, etc.), induced Peter the Hcrmit to lead them towards Jérusalem. He was aided by Walter the Penniless, a Burgundian nobleman, a soldier of some expérience, who Icft him at Cologne, and with 15,000 men made his way to Hungary. Anothcr rabble, undcr Emico, Count of Leiningen, and a tliird, under the monk Golschalk, also marched towards Jérusalem.

., 19. sur la foi des . ., ' trusting in . .'

, , 21. où = dans laquelle.

,, 29. Sémlin, situated at the confluence of the Save with the Danulx;. The followcrs of Walter the Penniless had roused the hostility of the countries through which they passed by robbing and ill-using the inhabitants, and had paid the penalty at Semlin, where the Hungarians slaughtered them with tcrrilile carnage.

16. 10. dans Belgrade : notice the différence between dans Belgrade

and <i Belgrade. The opposite of dans Belgrade is hors de Belgrade, and the opposite of à Belgrade is à X. The fortress of iîelgrad is on the Danube, the capital of Servia.

,. 15. Coloman, roi de Hongrie : 1095-1114

,, 21. la ville: tlic article in apposition serves to emphasise, and points to somcthing that has been mcntioned before.

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16. 30. Nissa (or Nish), on the Nishava, the birthplace of Con-

stantine the Great, and one of the strongest fortresses of the Byzantine empire.

17. 10. Guillaume de Tyr, Archbishop of Tyrus since 11 74. He

wrote, about 1180, a History of the Sacred IVar. His work was drawn partly from the accounts of eye-witnesses and partly from the previous chroniclers. For accuracy it stands eut in great contrast to the previous writings, and was of extrême value to subséquent historians, especially Michaud.

,, II. Bélial, properly ' good-for-nothing fellow ' ; hence in Bible language ' devil. '

18. 2. inexorable à : similarly inflexible a, insensible à, sourd à.

,, 8. ne prend des ordres que de lui-même, ' listens to nothing but his own inspirations. '

,, 30. chez=/>ar»i!.

19. II. les frontières de la Tlirace : in the eleventh century

Thrace consisted of the whole land in the basin of the Maritza river.

,, 16. les rendit : why no\. faire ?

,, 25 Alexis: see note p. 10, 1. 10.

,, 29. Constantinople, the seat of the Greek Emperor. Only 7000 of the Hermit's train reached Constantinople. Hère Alexius invited them to await the arrivai of their fellow- Crusaders, but when they began to plunder and rob, he transported them across the Bosphorus.

,, 31. Pisans, Vénitiens, Génois: the people of Pisa, Venice, and Genoa had held frcfiuent commercial intercourse with the East. This had been checked when the Seljukians conquered Jérusalem ; they now took advantage of the escort of Peter's untrained warriors.