524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

179.948 - 202.574 Tom Holland

He becomes one in due course, not when he's written that poem, to be fair. But it's all in the future. Exactly. You get your sainthood partly as a reward for that beautiful poem. Yes, like the poet laureate. So he writes this poem in the year 777. And we are in the realm of Charlemagne, Charles the Great, warlord of the West, great king, great emperor, as we will discover as this story continues.