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The Germans who opposed the Normans in Italy, derided their shortness of stature.

— William of Apulia

Teutonici, quia caesaries et forma decoros
Fecerat egregie proceri corporis illos,
Corpora derident Normanica, quae breviora
Esse videbantur.

Original text (Latin)

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