Contemporary Accounts
The course of the battle is described in Widukind of Corvey's chronicle Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum lib. III c. LIII-LV and, in less detail, in Thietmar of Merseburg's Chronicon lib. II.12. Short mentions of the battle are recorded in the respective paragraphs about the year 955 in the continuation of the annals of Prüm Abbey and the annals of St. Gallen Abbey.
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