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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.02.06 (01) [E]

> From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
> Subject: LL-L "History"

[...]
 but could anybody
> tell me in what respect the so called
> "V�lkerwanderung" (Germanic migration,
> roughly between 300 and 700) was _basically_
> different from the Viking
> invasions?
>
> I'm asking because in Belgian history handbooks, the
> first migration has no
> negative connotations, but the second one does
[...]

Hallo,

I don't know. But the question is a good one, and a
very legitimate one.

Two points.
Concerning Viking invasions: the Church was poking
around a lot in these matters. And clerical sources
have been telling about Viking raids and slaughters
that the clerics invented themselves, and then
lamented [And Machiavelli had still to come.]

Concerning the great Germanic Migration: if this
migration was accompanied by big scale raids and
slaughters [instead of fusing races], then there have
to be a handed-over story telling to lament these
migrations on a large scale.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan
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