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The German Classics from the Fourth to the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Chapter 12: 4. KARL DER GROSSE.
By F. Max Müller
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A companion anthology assembles representative extracts of German prose and poetry from the fourth to the nineteenth century, chosen to illustrate the literary periods treated in a contemporary scholarly history. It presents original medieval and early‑modern texts alongside modern German renderings, and includes biographical notices, editorial notes, and guidance on transcription, orthography, and layout. Selection principles and chapter headings follow the historian’s framework while certain major figures receive extended treatment, and the volume intermixes poems, prose excerpts, and critical commentary to serve as a practical reading‑book and reference for students and general readers.

4. KARL DER GROSSE.

AUS EINHARDS LEBENSBESCHREIBUNG KARLS DES GROSSEN.

[Scherer D. p. 43, E. p. 39.]

Herausgegeben von Pertz in ‘Monumenta Germaniæ historica. Scriptores’ II; Jaffé in ‘Bibliotheca rerum Germanicarum’ Bd. IV.

Cap. XXIX. Post susceptum imperiale nomen, cum adverteret multa legibus populi sui deesse (nam Franci duas habent leges, in plurimis locis valde diversas), cogitavit, quæ deerant addere et discrepantia unire, prava quoque ac perperam prolata corrigere; sed de his nihil aliud ab eo factum est, nisi quod pauca capitula, et ea imperfecta, legibus addidit. Omnium tamen nationum quæ sub eius dominatu erant iura quæ scripta non erant describere ac litteris mandari fecit. Item barbara et antiquissima carmina, quibus veterum regum actus et bella canebantur, scripsit memoriæque mandavit. {10} Inchoavit et grammaticam patrii sermonis. Mensibus etiam iuxta propriam linguam vocabula imposuit, cum ante id temporis apud Francos partim Latinis partim barbaris nominibus pronunciarentur. Item ventos duodecim propriis appellationibus insignivit, cum prius non amplius quam vix quatuor ventorum vocabula possent inveniri. Et de mensibus quidem Ianuarium Wintarmanoth, Februarium Hornung, Martium Lentzinmanoth, Aprilem Ostarmanoth, Maium Winnemanoth, Iunium Brachmanoth, Iulium Heuvimanoth, Augustum Aranmanoth, Septembrem Witumanoth, Octobrem Windumemanoth, Novembrem Herbistmanoth, Decembrem {20} Heilagmanoth appellavit. Ventis vero hoc modo nomina imposuit, ut subsolanum vocaret ostroniwint, eurum ostsundroni, euroaustrum sundostroni, austrum sundroni, austroafricum sundwestroni, africum westsundroni, zephyrum westroni, chorum westnordroni, circium nordwestroni, septemtrionem nordroni, aquilonem nordostroni, vulturnum ostnordroni.