17. Campum sibi praeparari jussit. M. Biet (p. 226-251) has
diligently ascertained this field of battle at Nogent, a
Benedictine abbey, about ten miles to the north of Soissons.
The ground was marked by a circle of Pagan sepulchres; and
Glovis bestowed the adjacent lands of Leuilly and Coucy on
the church of Rheims.