Questioning of the elite dominance theory

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/17/00 10:46:51 PM Mountain Standard Time,
rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

<< The Franks were evidently Arians until Clovis converted to Catholicism
 after the pope's representative promised him victory >>

-- incidentally, the 5th-century AD continental Germanics still had Tiw/Tiwaz
as their primary god; a derivative of the PIE "sky" or "sky father" deity, by
the usual *d ==>t.