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The Medieval Church · c. 883–887
The Deeds of Charlemagne
Notker the Stammerer · c. 840–912
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What it is
Anecdotes about Charlemagne collected two generations later — the bishop caught out by a trick, the iron king glimpsed by an approaching enemy, the emperor testing his courtiers' vanity.
Why it lasted
Unreliable as history and invaluable as legend: the beginning of Charlemagne as a figure of European storytelling.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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