[260] Eginhart in his life of Karl (ch. 25) states that the king studied grammar under Peter of Pisa, an aged deacon. [261] This was Angilbertus. [262] That is, Eginhart, the man skilled in many arts, as was Bezaleel, the chief architect of the Tabernacle. [263] See p. 33. [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. [267] See p. 151. [268] “Amice carissime.” [269] See my _Aldhelm_, S.P.C.K., p. 129. [270] Mansi, _Concilia_, xiii. 937. [271] Vienna, 1904. [272] Cummings, _History of Architecture in Italy_, ii. 71. [273] Pertz, _Monumenta_ (_Scriptores_), ii. 665, 6. [274] de ista die. [275] savoir et pouvoir me donne. [276] chacune. [277] comme homme. [278] droit. [279] faciet. [280] secundum meum velle. [281] _Concilium Liptinense._ [282] A photograph of this inscription is reproduced at p. 209 of my _Conversion of the Heptarchy_. [283] This must have come very near to being an umbrella. [284] Dan. xiv. 35, Vulgate. [285] _Bonefatii._ This was, of course, the great English missionary Archbishop of Maintz, martyred at Dorkum in 755. [286] 1 Cor. xv. 58. [287] Rom. xii. 2. [288] Based on 1 Pet. ii. 1. [289] He was Abbat of Fulda from 780 to 802, when he resigned the office. [290] This, no doubt, is the origin of the tradition that Alcuin wrote the Office for Trinity Sunday. See pp. 20, 173. [291] Rom. xiv. 5. [292] It will be observed that no mention is made of a king of Kent. See p. 91. [293] See the list on the next pages. [294] This would indicate that the _aula_ at which they had met the king and held the council was one of Offa’s outlying manors, and not his central royal residence. [295] Supposed, on slight reasoning, to have been held at Corbridge, see p. 216. [296] Besides those in the Pope’s list. [297] _Sacerdos._ It is uncertain to how late a date _sacerdos_ is to be rendered bishop. [298] Wattenbach and Dümmler give only the headings of the chapters, as here. The chapters themselves will be found in Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 448-58. [299] There are many injunctions that priests and others serving at the altar must wear drawers. There is quite a large literature on the subject of these garments (_femoralia_), in which such of the early fathers as are given to symbolism find symbolic meanings. They were an essential part of the dress of the Levitical priesthood (Exod. xxviii. 42, 43). [300] Probably referring to the practice of tattooing. [301] Prudentius (_Dipt._ i. 3) has “Adam” not “humum”.