The meeting at Paderborn was probably the first time an imperial coronation for Charlemagne was discussed, and it is no coincidence that its verse epic is "replete with imperial phraseology" [REF].
Although the identification of the city of the poem with Charlemagne's capital is nearly universal, it is not explicit in the poem, and the city might in fact be Paderborn itself, whose church was consecrated in 799 [REF].