The purpose of the work is to identify the features of the symbolic representation of the power of the first rulers of the Ludolfing dynasty in the evidence of narrative sources of this period about acts of political and symbolic communication. The object of the study is a complete corpus of historiographic works created in the period from the 950s. on the lane floor. 970s, surrounded by Otto I, sovereign of the Saxon dynasty (also called the Ludolfing dynasty or the Ottonian dynasty), king of the East Frankish kingdom, crowned emperor in Rome in 962.