Ut hactenus etiam tam apud Bajoariorum gentem,
quam et Saxonum, sed et alios ejusdem linguæ homines ..... in
eorum carminibus celebretur. Paul, l. i. c. 27. He died A.D.
799, (Muratori, in Praefat. tom. i. p. 397.)
These German songs, some of which might be as old as Tacitus, (de Moribus Germ. c. 2,) were compiled and transcribed by Charlemagne.
Barbara et antiquissima carmina, quibus veterum regum actus et bella canebantur scripsit memoriæque mandavit, (Eginard, in Vit. Carol. Magn. c. 29, p. 130, 131.)
The poems, which Goldast commends, (Animadvers. ad Eginard. p. 207,) appear to be recent and contemptible romances.