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Essay heading: Two Lives of Charlemagne
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By this friendship he bound me to him and made me his debtor both in life and death (pg. 52, Einhard, emphasis added).
Notker, however, is writing his version of Charlemagne because he was asked to. We are able to conclude this because he tells us that his audience is Charles, the great-grandson of Charlemagne...
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"I had originally intended, noble emperor, to limit my short history to your great-grandfather Charlemagne?" (pg. 161, Notker). Therefore, we can also assume several things that affected their writing. First, that since he, Notker, was asked to write about Charlemagne that he was not as thrilled or as passionate as Einhard was who freely chose to write about him...
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