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The '''Annales Iuvavenses''' or 'Annals of Salzburg' were a series of annals written in the 9th and 10th centuries from Salzburg. They are a useful source for southeastern Germany (Bavaria) and Austria where they exist, but they only survive in fragments copied in the 12th century.^[1]
According to the ''Annales Iuvavenses'', in 920 ''Baiuarii sponte se reddiderunt Arnolfo duci et regnare eum fecerunt in regno Teutonicorum'': "the Bavarians, with some other East Franks, elected Arnulf king in opposition to Henry" (actually in 919). This provides some of the only evidence for the concept of a "German kingdom" before the late 11th century, but it may be a 12th-century interpolation, as most scholars perceive it to be.^[2] The Salzburg annals are also the only source for an assassination attempt on Carloman by the Bavarians in 878.^[3]

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★ Reuter, Timothy. ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056''. New York: Longman, 1991.

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1. Reuter, 138–139.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid, 116.