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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "History"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Ron,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
You wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div><font size="2">I
value your supportive stance, dear Mark. But this may not be a case of
political correctness versus the opposite. It seems to have begun with
a misunderstanding, namely with me taking Luc's and Ingmar's responses
as teasing rather than as serious, and I ran with what I thought were
their satirical ouvertures. Seeing it from their side, I totally accept
Luc's and Ingmar's sensitivities and indignation, and it makes me think
no less of them whom I've always have regarded highly.<br>
</font></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks for your praise, goes both ways, rest assured. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I've always _greatly_ admired the way you manage this list, and minor
incidents won't put a blot on your escutcheon...quite the contrary, the
way you handle them is what counts most, and as a result your star now
shines even brighter than it already did! </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
(See: the poor jester is naked now, since the king stole his
attire...don't shoot, the guy's walking a thin line <span> ;-) </span>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Sooo...in order to avoid crossposting between "Humour" and "History",
let's just say that 1226 years ago, the result would have been
different Widukind! (THAT was ironic, just for the sake of bridging the
gap of course <span> ;-) </span>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Speaking of Widukind, seriously, I barely dare to ask; but could
anybody tell me in what respect the so called "Völkerwanderung"
(Germanic migration, roughly between 300 and 700) was _basically_
different from the Viking invasions? </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I'm asking because in Belgian history handbooks, the first migration
has no negative connotations, but the second one does. Sure, the motive
may have been different. Central Asians moving westward and therefore
triggering the Völkerwanderung sounds plausible. On the other hand,
Vikings heading south(west) due to Charlemagne, seems rather unlikely
to me.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Another possible factor is a "youth bulge" [</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">sic</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">], which happens
when the number of young people in society is proportionally high.
Latest "war theory" apparently takes this into account in certain
conflicts (not only in the Viking case, more here:
</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid#Youth_bulge" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid#Youth_bulge</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Would the type of "settling" just have been very different (farming vs.
looting)?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Or would there actually have been little or no difference on the ground?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Luc Hellinckx</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">