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In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire

Noble Blood

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A Noble Blood - Charlemagne's Legacy

The term Holy Roman Empire isn't Charlemagne's only linguistic legacy. If you look at the term for king in a number of Slavic and Baltic languages, you'll notice their similarity. The predominant theory among linguists is that all of these words can be traced back to the old high German word Carl.

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