Charlemagne

A third would soon rule a new kingdom in Germany.

The old Holy Roman Empire, which had stood in the heart of Europe since the days of Charlemagne, had been dissolved the year before, and in its place stood states that answered to Paris.

Then he turned towards Spain, Spain was an ally of France, but a weak and troubled one.

Its king was old and foolish.

What have we got? On this day, on September the 23rd, in the year 1122, the Con- Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Callixtus II and the Holy Roman Emperor, uh, Henry V.

Well, that's about the, uh, what is it? It's about the, uh, investiture, uh, controversy, isn't it? Basically, basically going back almost to Charlemagne or before.

Who gets to appoint, uh, bishops and cardinals and archbishops? Is it the pope or is it the Holy Roman Emperor? Yeah.

Who even, this, not that this was, not that this was part of the Con- Concordat of Worms, but who is more powerful? Who's more import- important? The pope or the king, the emperor, the Holy Roman Emperor in this case, or any king? King of England, King of France, King of Spain.

Anything and everything needs to be on the table at this point.

Where there are legends of Emperor Charlemagne sleeping within the mountain, cared for by dwarf-like creatures.

What the heck did they find inside this mountain? And what's still there today that we don't know about? Why do these mountains have massive tunnels? They have buildings, as we've shown.

Who is living inside as we speak? What's going on here in this place that we live? What are we being blocked off from? And why are these massive mountains time and time again restricted to the public by the military? The deepest and largest cave system in Germany, where it is largely unexplored.

And in their course of study at Logos, as they're looking at, you know, it's a history centric curriculum.

So as they're looking at the events of history and they're saying, was that a wise decision that Charlemagne made? Was that a wise decision that President Eisenhower made? Those sorts of questions and also, you know, having discernment to take that wisdom in their decision making.

making so that they exercise wisdom and discernment.

They're disciple of Christ.

The idea of a round table is not merely universality, but equality.

It has in it, modified of course by other tendencies to differentiation, the same idea that exists in the very word peers as given to the knights of Charlemagne.

In this the round table is as Roman as the round arch which might also serve as a type, for instead of being one barbaric rock merely rolled on the others, the king was rather the keystone of an arch.

But to this tradition of a level of dignity was added something unearthly that was from Rome, but not of it.

In this sense Islam was something like Christian heresy.

The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

And the Greek iconoclasts had poured into Italy, breaking the popular statues and denouncing the idolatry of the Pope, until routed in a style sufficiently symbolic by the sword of the father of Charlemagne.

It was all these disappointed negations that took fire from the genius of Mahomet, and launched out of the burning lands a cavalry charge that nearly conquered the world.

This had at last become the one salutary result which remained for that distracted, downtrodden, now utterly chaotic and anarchic country.

A conquering Svein, followed by an ably and earnestly administrative, as well as conquering Knut, whom Dalman compares to Charlemagne, were thus by the mysterious destinies appointed the effective saviours of England.

Tryggvason, on this occasion, was a good while at Southampton, and roamed extensively about, easily victorious over everything, if resistance were attempted, but finding little or none, and acting now in a peaceable or even friendly capacity.

In the Southampton country he came in contact with the then Bishop of Winchester, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, excellent Elphigus, still dimly decipherable to us as a man of great natural discernment, piety, and inborn veracity, a hero-soul, probably of real brotherhood with Olaf's own.

Nevertheless, he came to be the restorer, so-called, of Danish independence, sole remaining representative of Knut, or Knut's sister, of Forkbeard, Bluetooth, and Old Gorm, and ancestor of all the subsequent kings of Denmark for some four hundred years, himself coming, as we see, only by the distaff side, all of the sword or male side having died so soon.

Early death, it has been observed, was the great Knut's allotment, and all his posterity as well.

Fatal limit, had there been no others which we seen there were, to his becoming Charlemagne of the North, in any considerable degree.

Jarl Ulf, as we have seen, had a sister, Gyda by name, wife to Earl Godwin, Gudin Ulfnesson, as Snorro calls him, a very memorable Englishman, whose son and hers, King Harald, Harald in English books, as the memorablest of all.

As you probably know, it's pretty well established that not only most of the people in Europe, but certainly the heads of state, the kings and whatnot...

the royal families, can trace their bloodline back to Charlemagne.

Without a doubt.

He lived about 800.

and the omnibus though well built was cold and somewhat musty he drew his coat round him and in so doing chanced to feel his pocket it was empty he had forgotten his purse stop he shouted stop and then being of a polite disposition he glanced up at the painted notice-board so that he might call the driver by name mr brown stop oh do please stop mr brown did not stop but he opened a little window and looked in at the boy his face was a surprise so kind it was and modest mr brown i've left my purse behind i've not got a penny i can't pay for the ticket Will you take my watch, please? I am in the most awful hole.

Tickets on this line, said the driver, whether single or return, can be purchased by coinage from no terrain mint, and a chronometer, though it had solaced the vigils of Charlemagne, or measured the slumbers of Laura, can acquire by no mutation the double cake that charms the fangless cerberus of heaven so saying he handed in the necessary ticket and while the boy said thank you continued titular pretensions i know it well are vanity yet they merit no censure when uttered on a laughing lip and in an anonymous world are in some sort useful since they do serve to distinguish one jack from his fellow remember me therefore as sir thomas brown are you a sir oh sorry he had heard of these gentlemen drivers It is good of you about the ticket.

But if you go on at this rate, however does your bus pay? It does not pay.

It was not intended to pay.

This is why learning multiple languages can expand someone's perception.

Charlemagne, the Roman emperor, used to say, to have a second language is to have a second soul.

Here's one example from her talk.

She says, languages differ in where they put boundaries between colors.