 It was familiar to Ermold the Black, who may have used it for the hunt scene in the fourth book of his "Carmina in honorem Hludovici", an epic poem in honour of Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious.The first two as well as the final books do not survive.Helene Scheck argues that the original, complete poem "recounted Charlemagne's ascendancy" and that consequently "it would seem that the first two sections offer background on Charlemagne's rise and the poem would reach its culmination in the coronation of Charlemagne."