In these stories, which merge into fiction, Charlemagne is already half way to becoming the legendary figure of later medieval epics. 840-912), also called Notker I, Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. By contrast, Notker’s account, written some decades after Charlemagne’s death, is a collection of anecdotes rather than a presentation of historical facts. After Charlemagne’s death he was a loyal servant of Louis the Pious, and he died in 840. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne’s personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes, and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne’s coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800. Thorpe (Translator) 1,243 9 13,605 Einhards Two Lives of Charlemagneis an absorbing chronicle of one of the. Gall c.840 - c.912) was a musician, poet and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St. ‘Here then you have a book which perpetuates the memory of the greatest and most distinguished of men’ Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. by Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, Lewis G. Notker the Stammerer (familiarly known as Notker Balbulus, or Notker of St.
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