The dedication to Louis is followed by a letter in Latin prose to Luitbert, Archbishop of Mainz, in which Otfried explains the purpose of the work and discusses some of the problems, both orthgraphic and grammatical, of writing in German.
The dedication to Louis is followed by a letter in Latin prose to Luitbert, Archbishop of Mainz of writing in German. This was both orthgraphic and grammatical. Otfried explains the purpose of the work. Otfried discusses some of the problems in Mainz.