When the lord emperor was crossing by way of a certain shortcut a certain very rapid stream amidst the mountain gorges and the water had received him safely upon its opposite bank, he ate lunch there.
After the innumerable and unbearable labors which he had endured now for a month, he wished to bathe in this water and to swim in order to cool himself off.
[5] On the other hand, it has been argued that author may have been Bishop Godfrey of Würzburg, Frederick's former chancellor, who died at Antioch in July, only a month after the letter was written.
[5] In the former, which dates to the early thirteenth century, it is appended to a copy of the Gesta Friderici imperatoris, a biography of Frederick by Bishop Otto I of Freising and Rahewin.
[4] The Letter does not seem to have been used by the author of the Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris, although newsletters like it were one of his main sources of information.