Posted on 03/31/2002 3:17:14 PM PST by Pokey78
Metal detector finds silver ring for a bloodthirsty god[UK]
Leighton Buzzard Observer | 23 May 2008 | Mick King
Posted on 05/23/2008 2:04:37 PM PDT by BGHater
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I’m sorry, this “scholar” must be on something because anything immortalized by Asterix and Obelix is TRUE!
Actually, they didn’t get too far toward the unification of Gaul, did they?
By contrast, look at how the Germans reacted to the Roman invasion of their land: The battle of Teutoberg Forest in which an army of Germans ferociously butchered three entire Roman legions.
It was a loss of one-quarter of Rome’s European army and it’s effects are still felt today: The Romans never penetrated East of the Rhine and so the spread of their cultural influence was severely dampened in that area.
Let's not forget the battle of Tours, and Charles Martel, which gave the expanding Islamic empire a great bloody nose.
We may joke a lot about the french, but the facts of history (as you point out) tell a very different story.
Oh yes, and let's not forget that a great many vikings settled in Saxony, and became part of the genetic mix known as the french.
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