Two lives of Charlemagne

by Lewis G. M. Thorpe

"To speak another language is to have another soul." Charlemagne (748-814) was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united the majorityof central and western Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule fromwestern Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire centuries earlier. Einhard (775-840) and Notker the Stammerer (840-912) were early Frankish scholarswho both wrote works on Charlemagne's life such as: Vita Karoli Magni byEinhard and Gesta Karoli by Notker the Stammerer.

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