Oaths of Strasbourg
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The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the success
Serments de Strasbourg
Hotel room in Strasbourg with oath text in Modern French
Conquests during the reign of Charlemagne, 758–814.
Old High German
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Old High German is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old
Oaths of Strasbourg
…German swore his oath in an early form of Old French so that the soldiers of Charles the Bald could understand him. Likewise, the latter recited his in Old High German so that Louis's soldiers would understand. The section of the Oaths written in a language resembling French is of special importance to historical…
First page of the St. Gall Codex Abrogans (Stiftsbibliothek, cod. 911), one of the earliest texts in Old High German