[600] Asser, 496 C-E [68, 69].
[601] ‘tentoriorum tenuitates.’
[602] Weber, Weltgesch., v. 298; Oelsner, Jahrbücher des fränkischen Reiches unter K. Pippin, p. 347: ‘direximus [uobis] … libros … insimul artem gramaticam … geometricam … omnes Greco eloquio scriptas, necnon et horologium nocturnum.’ Cf. also the very curious account given by Einhard, Annals, ad ann. 807, of a striking clock given to Charles by the king of Persia, cited in Hazlitt’s edition of Warton’s History of English Poetry, i. 197.
[603] 492 C [58]; cf. Einhard, Vita Car., c. 16.
[604] Of Charles it is said: ‘Scotorum reges habuit ad suam uoluntatem,’ ibid.
[605] The Life of St. Gall, written in this very century, says: ‘nationi Scotorum consuetudo peregrinandi iam paene in naturam conuersa est,’ Pertz, ii. 30; cf. Bede, ii. 170.
[606] See Chron. ii. 103-105, where these and other instances are collected.
[607] 517 E.
[608] Above, § 27.
[609] Printed in Tobler, Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, and elsewhere.