"You only put up monuments to those who are dead," said Wittekind.
At Detmold, Wittekind led the Saxons in a furious battle, in which neither gained the victory.
Charlemagne marched immediately into the Saxon land: the rebels dispersed at his approach and Wittekind again became a fugitive.
Both he and his wife Mathilde were descendants of Wittekind, the foe and almost the conqueror of Charlemagne.
But unyielding as Wittekind was, his great antagonist was equally resolute and persistent.
