Everyone has heard of how the Viking invaders came to England, burning churches, marauding, etc. But few people know of the provocation that brought about this invasion.
Here is a very brief summary of events, so we can see things in their proper context.
1. 9AD Roman emperor Augustus orders African and Asian legions into Germania to rape and pollute the barbarian race and turn them into mixed race slaves.
2. General Arminius (also known as Herman) a barbarian who had joined the Roman army , rebelled and led the Cherusci (from whom are decended - the Saxons then the Anglo-Saxons - English) to trap and wipe out the multi-racial Roman rapist hoarde in the Teutoburg forest (Detmold, Paderborn).
3. Defeated Romans are tortured, beheaded, disembowelled, their entrails and skulls nailed to trees. (origin of Yuletree decorations!).
4. A great tree grows on the site of the victory. The Tree of Thor.
5. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wages war for 17 years (3xWWII) to defeat the barbarians, and fails. (Despite what the film Gladiator suggests).
6. Roman emperor Probus offers gold coins for every head and blue eye torn from barbarian man, woman and child. (Chronicled in Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".)
7. AD791 Emperor Charlemagne executes 2000 Saxon cheiftans after 25 years of genocidal war against the north European barbarians. Threatens extermination of the barbarians unless they convert to Christianity. The last Saxon cheif promises, "You can kill us all but then you will have to answer to our cousins across the Baltic and they are fiercer than us." The Tree of Thor is cut down.
8. AD792 The Viking age begins. Ivar the Boneless (he had brittle bone disease, but was chosen for his skill in chess) orders a holy war to exterminate Christianity and de-Christianise England: churches burned, Christians enslaved. (Reports of rape are all accounts written by the Christian church and thus unreliable).
9. Gradually Norse kings converted by "magician" missionaries and fear of continental Christianity.
10. Remaining Odinists exiled to Iceland and Vinland, or forced to swallow adders.
I hope you find this interesting!
Here is a very brief summary of events, so we can see things in their proper context.
1. 9AD Roman emperor Augustus orders African and Asian legions into Germania to rape and pollute the barbarian race and turn them into mixed race slaves.
2. General Arminius (also known as Herman) a barbarian who had joined the Roman army , rebelled and led the Cherusci (from whom are decended - the Saxons then the Anglo-Saxons - English) to trap and wipe out the multi-racial Roman rapist hoarde in the Teutoburg forest (Detmold, Paderborn).
3. Defeated Romans are tortured, beheaded, disembowelled, their entrails and skulls nailed to trees. (origin of Yuletree decorations!).
4. A great tree grows on the site of the victory. The Tree of Thor.
5. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wages war for 17 years (3xWWII) to defeat the barbarians, and fails. (Despite what the film Gladiator suggests).
6. Roman emperor Probus offers gold coins for every head and blue eye torn from barbarian man, woman and child. (Chronicled in Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".)
7. AD791 Emperor Charlemagne executes 2000 Saxon cheiftans after 25 years of genocidal war against the north European barbarians. Threatens extermination of the barbarians unless they convert to Christianity. The last Saxon cheif promises, "You can kill us all but then you will have to answer to our cousins across the Baltic and they are fiercer than us." The Tree of Thor is cut down.
8. AD792 The Viking age begins. Ivar the Boneless (he had brittle bone disease, but was chosen for his skill in chess) orders a holy war to exterminate Christianity and de-Christianise England: churches burned, Christians enslaved. (Reports of rape are all accounts written by the Christian church and thus unreliable).
9. Gradually Norse kings converted by "magician" missionaries and fear of continental Christianity.
10. Remaining Odinists exiled to Iceland and Vinland, or forced to swallow adders.
I hope you find this interesting!
