[Ansteorra] The Legendary Treasures of Charlemagne

[Peter Schorn]

Thomas of Tenby wrote:

"There will be a quest in Bryn Gwlad on Saturday, October 24th 
to find the legendary Treasure of Charlemagne.  The quest will 
begin at the Gate after the morning court and run until the 
early afternoon.  Questers will have the opportunity to seek 
clues from famous people in the past."

Will Cuppy wrote:   

"Charlemagne's strong point was morals.  He was so moral that some people
thought he was only fooling.  Those people came to no good.  Naturally, he
wanted to improve others, notably the heathen Saxons, who had stored an
immense treasure in a hollow tree called the Irminsul in honor of Woden, or
Irmin for short.  So he paid them a visit, baptized them all and chopped
down the Irminsul, and out fell the contents right into Charlemagne's lap.
And was he surprised!  Well, they asked for it.

"Then he improved the Avars, who had been hoarding great heaps of gold
inside a perfectly impregnable fortress, or that's what _they_ thought.  He
also looked over the Sorbs and the Wiltzes, but they turned out to be
hopeless.  They were stony broke.  Whenever he decided to help somebody's
morals, people would bury their small change and hide in the swamps and
forests.  Charlemagne had a firm grasp of the fundamentals.  He has
therefore been called the first of the oderns."

--_The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody_