 Pepin's life demonstrates this ambiguous position of the deformed and the disabled in Carolingian society—individuals who traveled through life apparently cursed by God, but for reasons incomprehensible to humans.Einhard calls Pepin "handsome of face, but hunchbacked," and dissociates him completely from Charlemagne's other progeny.Notker the Stammerer, however, treats Pepin's disability as more of a mundane inconvenience than a sign from God