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Anybody who knows more about anything this poem may contribute to our knowledge of the battle could make their own contribution to the stubby article Battle of Saucourt. Thankyou. Srnec 05:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Motivation?
The literature has enormous amounts of discussion and evidence on the question of why the poem was written in the first place. However, I can't see any clear account of why it was worth copying after Louis' death. Can anyone point me in the right direction? --Pfold (talk) 13:57, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * It was copied fairly shortly after his death. The rubric seems to suggest it was copied as a memorial, and Brian Murdoch basically says as much. Srnec (talk) 21:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Certainly it has a memorial function, but I was thinking more concretely: someone must have thought there was some purpose in putting it together with the Eulalia sequence and making sure it survived. In whose interest was it for that to be done once L. was dead? It can no longer be to answer Hincmar's charge against L, for example, even if that was one of the motivations for the original composition. --Pfold (talk) 12:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Found something which looks as if it might tackle the issue
 * --Pfold (talk) 21:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)