Charming bit of world history, here....Norway, am I giving you less than fives

Frankly, Stuart, this parody is, like its subject, great.

Really good one! I was envsioning quaint little medieval dances.

Charlie Mange never sounded so spoofed!

charlemagne is DEAD ????...i didn't know he was sick

"and make it all dark...
and
cold - sort
of like Norway
Great ending to a lovely bit of edgy-kayshun, Stu. Charlemagne...didn't Kylie play her on Neighbours? 555

thanks JB (groan.................groan)

thanks Alvin, Johnny D, AFW, adagio

thanks Kristof, and yes, I believe so - wasn't she engaged to that cross-dresser "MaryQueenOf" Scott?

Bloody Vikings. Fine bit o' writing here.

weren't they ever - thanks Rex :-)

Excellent job, Stuart...I LOVE it. "...sort of like Norway..." LOL!

Oh, and do you know that I'm actually a decendant of Charlemagne? Of course you don't know that...but I am. I am a little bit of a Genealogy-aholic, if you must know one of my nerdier traits.

thankyou so much great (repeat "great" until lunchtime) great grand-daughter of Charlemagne....and this isn't to burst your bubble or anything, because I'm sure the second sentence of this excerpt refers to you, but the following quote from wikipedia I found very hard to believe (not being a genealogist like yourself)

"It is frequently claimed by genealogists that all people with European ancestry alive today are probably descended from Charlemagne. However, only a small percentage can actually prove descent from him. Charlemagne's marriage and relationship politics and ethics did, however, result in a fairly large number of descendants, all of whom had far better life expectancies than is usually the case for children in that time period. They were married into houses of nobility and as a result of intermarriages many people of noble descent can indeed trace their ancestry back to Charlemagne. He is without a doubt an ancestor of every royal family of Europe"

maybe the logic escapes me, but how can EVERYONE be traced back to ONE person? (not counting Adam) - did none of his neighbouring warlords and visigoths have children??

Oh gosh...now you have me stumped. I'm sure that everyone else who makes the claim is full of it...; )...but I have the pedigree chart at home, though...that leads back to him. I'll mail you a copy with my delivery receipt for the Bentley.

Let me be Frank with you: Very good parody. As for whether everyone of European descent is descended from him... Well, some of us are most desperate to prove royal blood than others. But, speaking as a Polish American, that's all in the Piast.

Well, I'm descended from Charlemagne too, all it really takes is one family of English gentry, and you are usually toe in. So I guess that makes me a cousin of Arwen? If her chart pans out with proper documentation of course... ;-)

Anyway, Stu, really good job and loved the ending, altho' I almost shouldn't give you fives the way you called poor Pippin names there and such - heh heh.... ;-)

thanks MP (twin groans for Frank and Piast)

ah, thanks Merry - and d'ya think I didn't strain the brain trying to link Charlie's Pippin to yours? - when I unearthed him via wikipedia, it was too good a gimme not to use, but alas...