Poeta Saxo

The Poeta Saxo is the Notname one acting in the Corvey monastery towards the end of the 9th century historian.

He authored 888-891 Annales de Caroli Magni gestis imperatoris in the form of a great historical poem. The fifth book entitled De vita et obitu. This biography of Charlemagne due in particular to other works. These include the Annales qui dicuntur Einhardi and the Vita Karoli of Einhard. The previously held view that the Poeta Saxo was identical with the poet Agius is now regarded as refuted. The work is full of praise for Charles the Great and his missionary work in Saxony. Content, the work is not very original. Linguistically, it is reasonable and the work of Agius considered the time to be superior.