[261] This was Angilbertus.
[262] That is, Eginhart, the man skilled in many arts, as was Bezaleel, the chief architect of the Tabernacle.
[264] The Wends.
[265] Eginhard tells us under this year 789 that Karl crossed the Rhine at Cologne with a great army, pushed through Saxony as far as the Elbe, and brought the Wiltzi to terms. That, he says, is their name in the Frank tongue. In their own tongue they are Welatabi.
[266] The Huns, or Avars, had in the previous year invaded Italy and Bavaria.
[268] “Amice carissime.”
[269] See my Aldhelm, S.P.C.K., p. 129.
[270] Mansi, Concilia, xiii. 937.