The best original account of the Saxon pirates may be found in Sidonius Apollinaris (l. viii. Epist. 6, p. 223, edit. Sirmond), and the best commentary in the Abbe du Bos (Hist. Critique de la Monarchie Francoise, etc., tom. i. l. i. c. 16, p. 148-155. See likewise p. 77, 78).