Note 498 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.

The Historia de praeliis, for instance, the tenth-century work of Leo Archipresbyter (see above, p. 381, note 26), was the text from which Frutolf of Michaelsberg derived the version of the Romance of Alexander which he inserted in his chronicle and which thus found its way to the chronicle of Otto of Freising (Meyer, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 39). That the chronicle from which Otto drew was by Frutolf and not by Ekkehard of Aura was shown by Bresslau, Die Chroniken, 1895.