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- Title
Einhardian geography and the tenth‐century Abodrites.
- Abstract
The Abodrites, a Slavic people who lived in present‐day north‐eastern Germany, are only attested four times between 895 and 966. In this essay, I argue that most of these attestations derive not from an accurate rendering of historical events but from use of the geography of Einhard's Vita Karoli magni to understand a changing political landscape. As best can be reconstructed, the tenth‐century Abodrites had greatly decreased political power and controlled a much smaller territory than their ninth‐century forebears or eleventh‐century successors.
- Subjects
OBODRITES; SLAVS; EINHARD, ca. 770-840; GERMAN history; VELETIANS; CHARLEMAGNE, Emperor, 742-814
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 2, p236
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12537