“A mysterious foundation in the cloister of the monumental monastery church can possibly be linked to the mention of a subsequent burial of Otto the Great’s intestines...”
They could have at least buried the rest of him too.
“A mysterious foundation in the cloister of the monumental monastery church...”
There may be a second, even more mysterious Foundation at the opposite end of the galaxy.
:)
>>According to Thietmar von Merseburg’s chronicle from the beginning of the 11th century, the ruler’s entrails were buried the night after his death in Memleben’s St. Mary’s Church (a predecessor of Otto II’s monumental church), and his embalmed body was transported to Magdeburg. An interpretation of the newly discovered building in the monumental church cloister as a sanctuary for the temporary storage and veneration of the ‘relic’ with the entrails of Otto the Great is within the realm of possibility.
Removal of the intestines presumably made the body less smelly to transport.
;^)