The Annales Bertiniani or Annals of St. Bertin is a Frankish chronicle which was found in the Monastery of St. Bertin and from which it was named. It covers the period 830-882 and it was written by a number of scribes, among others Hincmar of Reims. The chronicle is preserved in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica. St. ... Statue of Charlemagne (also called Karl der Große, Charles the Great) in Frankfurt, Germany. ... Events Christian missionary Ansgar visits Birka, trade city of the Swedes. ... Events Carloman, King of the West Franks becomes sole king upon the death of his brother. ... Hincmar (c. ...

Among other things, it is notable for the mention of a group of Vikings, who called themselves Rhos and visited Constantinople around the year 838. Fearful of returning home via the steppes, which would leave them vulnerable to attacks by the Magyars, these Rhos travelled through Germany. They were questioned by the Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious somewhere near Mainz. They informed the emperor that their leader was known as chacanus (the Latin for "Khagan") and that they lived in the north of Russia, but that their ancestral homeland was in Sweden.^[1] The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ... Rus’ (Русь, ) was a medieval East Slavic nation, which, according to the most popular but by no means the only theory, took its name from its ruling warrior class with Scandinavian roots. ... Map of Constantinople. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Statue of Charlemagne (also called Karl der Große, Charles the Great) in Frankfurt, Germany. ... The following list of Frankish Kings is one of several Wikipedia lists of incumbents. ... Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Latin is an ancient [[Indo-European languages|Indo-well as the Roman CEuropean language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

Venerunt etiam legati Grecorum a Theophilo imperatore directi, Theodosius videlicet Calcedonensis metropolitanus episcopus et Theophanius spatarius, ferentes cum donis imperatori dignis epistola; quos imperator quinto decimo Kalendas Iunii in Ingulenheim honorifice suscepit. Quorum legatio super confirmatione pacti et pacis atque perpetuae inter utrumque imperatorem eique subditos amicitiae et caritatis agebat, necnon de victoriis, quas adversus exteras bellando gentes caelitus fuerat assecutus, gratificatio et in Domino exultatio ferebatur; in quibus imperatorem sibique subiectos amicabiliter Datori victoriarum omnium gratias referre poposcit. Misit etiam cum eis quosdam, qui se, id est gentem suam, Rhos vocari dicebant, quos rex illorum chacanus vocabulo ad se amicitiae, sicut asserebant, causa direxerat, petens per memoratam epistolam, quatenus benignitate imperatoris redeundi facultatem atque auxilium per imperium suum toto habere possent, quoniam itinera, per quae ad illum Constantinopolim venerant, inter barbaras et nimiae feritatis gentes inmanissimas habuerant, quibus eos, ne forte periculum inciderent, redire noluit. Quorum adventus causam imperator diligentius investigans, comperit, eos gentis esse Sueonum. Exploratores potius regni illius nostrique quam amicitiae petitores ratus, penes se eo usque retinendos iudicavit, quoad veraciter inveniri posset, utrum fideliter eo necne pervenerint; idque Theophilo per memoratos legatos suos atque epistolam intimare non distulit, et quod eos illius amore libenter susceperit, ac, si fideles invenirentur, et facultas absque illorum periculo in patriam remeandi daretur, cum auxilio remittendos; sin alias, una cum missis nostris ad eius praesentiam dirigendos, ut, quid de talibus fieri deberet, ipse decernendo efficeret.

References

1. ^ Jones, Gwyn. A History of the Vikings. 2nd ed. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984. pp249-250.