523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

496.88 - 517.202 Tom Holland

But also, you know, he's the descendant of a weird sea creature. He's got his long hair. He's got all this kind of stuff. He's got his very tight pants over his enormous genitals. All this stuff that marks him out as being simultaneously Roman and Frankish. And that passage that you read, I mean, Einhard mentions some of the things that Clovis had worn and which the Merovision kins have inherited.