[40]The River Sau or Save is one of the principal tributaries of the Danube, and joins that river at Belgrade. [41]The modern Vienna. [42]When Charlemagne expelled the Avars he made the district between the Enns and the Wienerwald the boundary of the Kingdom. “Oestmark” signifies “East mark” or limit, and “Oesterreich” means Austria. [43]Alcuin, the prelate and scholar, was born at York, England, in 735, and died at Tours in 804. He was master of the school of the palace and general superintendent of all Charlemagne’s educational reforms. He was an authority on theology, history, grammar, rhetoric; he revised the Vulgate, and was also a poet. Appendix The following is a chronological statement of the most important events in the life of Charlemagne: 742 Birth of Charlemagne. 768 Accession to the throne conjointly with Carloman. 771 Death of Carloman. 772 Saxon War. 773 War with the Lombards. 777 Mayfield at Paderborn. 778 War with Arabs in Spain. 785 Submission of Wittekind. 788 Bavaria subdued. 800 Crowned Emperor at Rome. 808-810 Defeated the Danes. 814 Death of Charlemagne. 814 Accession of Ludwig. LIFE STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE _Translated from the German by_ GEORGE P. UPTON 28 Volumes Now Ready _Historical and Biographical_ Barbarossa William of Orange Maria Theresa The Maid of Orleans Frederick the Great The Little Dauphin Herman and Thusnelda The Swiss Heroes Marie Antoinette’s Youth The Duke of Brittany Louise, Queen of Prussia The Youth of the Great Elector Emperor William First Elizabeth, Empress of Austria Charlemagne Prince Eugene Eugénie, Empress of the French Queen Maria Sophia of Naples _Musical Biography_ Beethoven Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Haydn _Legendary_ Frithjof Saga Gudrun The Nibelungs William Tell Arnold of Winkelried Undine Illustrated. Each 50 cents _net_ A. C. McCLURG & CO., Chicago Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Charlemagne, by Ferdinand Schmidt and George P. Upton