Ensem elevat, eumque a sinistra parte scapularum, tanta virtute intorsit, ut quod pectus medium disjunxit spinam et vitalia interrupit; et sic lubricus ensis super crus dextrum integer exivit: sicque caput integrum cum dextra parte corporis immersit gurgite, partemque quae equo praesidebat remisit civitati, (Robert. Mon. p. 50). Cujus ense trajectus, Turcus duo factus est Turci: ut inferior alter in urbem equitaret, alter arcitenens in flumine nataret (Radulph. Cadom. c. 53, p. 304).
Yet he justifies the deed by the stupendis viribus of Godfrey; and William of Tyre covers it by
obstupuit populus facti novitate .... mirabilis (l. v. c. 6, p. 701).
Yet it must not have appeared incredible to the knights of that age.