The following are the few Slavic excerpts from Thegan’s Deeds of Louis (the Pious) (778 – 840). That “Vita” (Gesta Hludowici imperatoris) is one of the few (relatively) contemporary biographies written about Louis (the others – the Life of Louis (the Pious) and Carmina in honorem Hludowici Caesaris – having been written, respectively, by the anonymous, so-called Astronomer and by Ermold) . Thegan (before 800 – circa 850) was the bishop of Trier.
About twenty manuscripts of this work remain. One of the oldest (from about 1090) is one where the scribe could not quite make up his mind how to spell Slavs. In the earlier section we have Suavos and in the later we have Sclavos (the other manuscripts seem to have Sclavos in both places).
Louis
It is interesting to note (see below) how easily a “u” may become a “cl” (or vice versa).
Gesta Hludowici imperatoris
14. In the next year [815] of his reign he held his general assembly in the territory of Saxony and there he decreed many good things. Danish legates came to him requesting peace; all who were in the surrounding pagan countries came to him. Bernard came to him there, and Louis sent him back to Italy. After Louis confirmed the confines of his kingdom in these territories, he returned to his seat in the palace at Aachen and there spent the winter.
15. In the following year [816] Louis sent his army against the Slavs who lived in the east. The Franks overcame them and were victorious by the gift of God. That done, each of them returned to his own lands.
27. In the following year [820] Louis sent his army against the eastern Slavs. The leader of the Slavs was named Ljudovit. The Franks put him to flight and laid waste to that land. Returning from there, they went home.
34. In the next year [825] Louis was at the palace at Aachen with his army and there legates of the Bulgars came bearing gifts. Louis received them graciously and dismissed them to return to their own land.
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