read the passage and answer these short few wuestions: What was the main goal of the people who invaded Frankland? How did the Franks respond to these invasions? What was the result of the actions the Franks took? Do you believe this was a good strategy for dealing with the invading Northmen? Why or why not? If not, what would you do instead?

843 A.D.: Pirates of the Northmen's race came to Nantes in France), killed the bishop and many of the clergy and laymen, both men and women, and pillaged the city. Thence they set out to plunder the lands of lower Aquitaine (a region in southern France along the Atlantic Ocean that contains the city of Bordeaux]. At length they arrived at a certain island the isle of Rhe, near La Rochelle, north of the mouth of the Garonne River in southern France which meets the Atlantic ar the city of Bordeaux), and carried materials thither from the mainland to build themselves houses and they settled there for the winter, as if that were to be their permanent dwelling place. 844 A.D.: The Northmen ascended the Garonne as far as Toulouse (a city in southern France) and pillaged the lands along both banks with impunity. Some after leaving this region went into Galicia la region in Northern Spain) and perished, part of them by the attacks of the crossbowmen who had come to resist them, part by being overwhelmed by a storm at sea. But others of them went further into Spain and engaged in long and desperate combats with the Saracens Muslims living in Spain); defeated in the end, they withdrew. 845 A.D.. Then the other I Northmen), came without meeting any resistance to Paris. Charles (the Bald, King of France) resolved to hold out against them, but seeing the impossibility of gaining a victory, he made with them a certain agreement and by a gift of 7.000 livres be bought them off from advancing farther and persuaded them to return to their homeland) Euric, king of the Northmen, advanced, with six hundred vessels, along the course of the River Elbe into modem Germany) to attack Louis of Germany (King of Germany). The Saxons [Germans) prepared to meet him, gave battle, and with the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ won the victory. The Northmen returned down the Seine River in modern France which runs through Paris) and coming to the ocean pillaged, destroyed, and bumed all the regions along the coast. 846 A.D.: The Danish (a group of Northmen) pirates landed in Frisia (acoustal region in the modern Netherlands]. They were able to force from the people whatever contributions they wished and, being victors in battle, they remained masters of almost the entire province. 847 A.D.: The Northmen made their appearance in the part of Gaal (part of modem France) inhabited by the Britons fa region in modern France known as Brittany and won three victories. Nomno a chief of the Britons), although defeated, at length succeeded in buying them off with presents and getting them out of his country 853-854 A.D.: The Danish pirates, making their way into the country eastward from the city of Nantes [in France, along the Atlantic coast), arrived without opposition, November Eighth before Tours (a city inland from Nantes in France along the Loire River). This they burned. together with the church of St. Martin and the neighboring places. But that incursion had been foreseen with certainty and the body of St. Martin had been removed to Comery, a monastery of that church, and from there to the city of Orleans. The pirates went on to the chiites of Blois and burned it, proposing then to proceed to Orleans and destroy that city in the same fashion. But Agius, bishop of Orleans, and Burchard, bishop of Chartres, had gathered soldiers and ships to meet them, so they abandoned their design and returned to the lower Loire (back down the Loire River towards the Atlantic Ocean), though the following year [855 AD.) they ascended it anew to the city of Angers 855 A.D.: They (Northmen) left their ships behind and undertook to go overland to the city of Poitiers, but the Aquitanian people from the region of Aquitaine in southern France) came to meet them and defcated them, so that not more than 300 escaped 856 A.D.: On the eighteenth of April, the Danish (Northmen) pirates came to the city of Orleans (along the Loire River in central France).pillaged it, and went away without meeting opposition Other Danish pirates came into the Seine River in northern France about the middle of August and, after plundering and ruining the towns on the two banks of the river and even the monasteries and villages farther back, came to a well located place near the Seine called Jeufosse, and there quietly passed the winter. 859 A.D.: The Danish pirates having made a long sca-voyage for they had sailed between Spain and Africa) entered the Rhone (River, which runs from the Mediterranean Sea at the city of Arles north into France and to Geneva, Switzerland), where they pillaged many cities and monasteries and established themselves on the island called Camargue ...They devastated everything before them as far as the city of Valence in southem France). Then after ravaging all these regions, they returned to the island where they had fixed their habitation. Thence they went on toward Italy, capturing and plundering Pisa (along the west coast of Italy and other cities