Editing Battle of Tours (section)

===Contemporary accounts===
The [[Mozarabic Chronicle of 754]] "describes the battle in greater detail than any other Latin or Arabic source".<ref name="Watson">{{harvnb|Watson|1993}}</ref> It says of the encounter that,
{{blockquote|text=While Abd ar-Rahman was pursuing Odo, he decided to despoil Tours by destroying its palaces and burning its churches. There he confronted the consul of Austrasia by the name of Charles, a man who, having proved himself to be a warrior from his youth and an expert in things military, had been summoned by Odo. After each side had tormented the other with raids for almost seven days, they finally prepared their battle lines and fought fiercely. The northern peoples remained as immobile as a wall, holding together like a glacier in the cold regions. In the blink of an eye, they annihilated the Arabs with the sword. The people of Austrasia, greater in a number of soldiers and formidably armed, killed the king, Abd ar-Rahman, when they found him, striking him on the chest. But suddenly, within sight of the countless tents of the Arabs, the Franks despicably sheathed their swords postponing the fight until the next day since night had fallen during the battle. Rising from their own camp at dawn, the Europeans saw the tents and canopies of the Arabs all arranged just as they had appeared the day before. Not knowing that they were empty and thinking that inside them there were Saracen forces ready for battle, they sent officers to reconnoiter and discovered that all the Ishmaelite troops had left. They had indeed fled silently by night in tight formation, returning to their own country.|author=Wolf (trans.)|source=''Chronicle of 754'', p. 145}}

Charles Martel's family composed, for the fourth book of the ''[[Chronicle of Fredegar#Continuations|Continuations of Fredegar's Chronicle]]'', a stylized summary of the battle:

{{blockquote|text=Prince Charles boldly drew up his battle lines against them [the Arabs] and the warrior rushed in against them. With Christ's help, he overturned their tents and hastened to battle to grind them small in slaughter. The king Abdirama having been killed, he destroyed [them], driving forth the army, he fought and won. Thus did the victor triumph over his enemies.|author=Fouracre|source=''Continuations of Fredegar'', p. 149}}

This source details further that "he (Charles Martel) came down upon them like a great man of battle". It goes on to say Charles "scattered them like the stubble".

The Latin word used for "warrior", ''{{lang|la|belligerator}}'', "is from the [[Books of the Maccabees|Book of Maccabees]], chapters 15 and 16", which describe huge battles.<ref>Fouracre, 2000, p. 149.</ref>

It is thought that [[Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' (Book V, Chapter XXIV) includes a reference to the Battle of Tours: "...{{nbsp}}a dreadful plague of Saracens ravaged France with miserable slaughter, but they not long after in that country received the punishment due to their wickedness".<ref>Bede, 1847, p. 291.</ref>