... of advocate of the Roman church. The dregs of the Carlovingian race no longer exhibitedany symptoms of virtue or power, and the ridiculous epithets of the bard, the stammerer, the fat, and the simple, ... his son, the first and greatest of the Othos. A portion of Gaul, to the west of the Rhine, along the banks of the Meuse and the Moselle, wasassigned to the Germans, by whose blood and language ... propagated by the sword of Otho, the conqueror and apostle of the Slavic nations of the Elbe and Oder: the marches of Brandenburgh and Sleswickwere fortified with German colonies; and the king of Denmark,...