The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon…
Category: History of the Middle-Ages
22 Rules
22 Rules In 1501, a writer and priest named Desiderius Erasmus was staying at a castle occupied by one of the orders of knights then spread throughout Europe. He met a Knight there who was rather friendly, but quite rough around the edges. The Knight’s wife begged Erasmus to help her husband, so Erasmus…
The Way of the Warrior
H/T WRSA The Way of the Warrior in Anglo-Saxon England involved far more than merely being trained in the use of weapons as I put it simply in my thread of yesterday. Of equal, or greater, importance was learning both the rituals associated with warfare and the right form of battle. 1/19 The…
Liberals and Conservatives Don’t Understand History
Liberals and Conservatives Don’t Understand History “As the left and center-right continue to battle it out over a culture war the left has already won, it’s important to note that neither side cares about the truth. They are simply using narratives to fulfill their own short term pointless objectives. The reality is that race…
Know Your White History: Wergeld
Wergeld This thread is all about your legal options if you were to travel back in time to medieval Europe and murder someone. It’s also about measuring the decline of the extended family and the origins of English individualism. On Bertha Phillpotts’ “Kindred and Clan in Past Time”. Say as an example you traveled back…
A Thousand Year Old Viking Hall in Denmark Unearthed By Archaeologists
Know Your History: The Anglo-Saxon Calendar
The Anglo-Saxon Calendar I think it’s safe to say that everybody reading this will agree that the world is becoming worse off for increased homogenisation and the differences between peoples gradually being ironed out. In an era of aeroplanes and instant telecommunications it’s perhaps not realistic to go back to a world where each…
The White Slave Trade
Know Your White History: The Collapse of the Scottish Clan System
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SCOTTISH CLAN SYSTEM The term “clan” is derived from the Gaelic word “clann”, meaning family or children, however, it is a misconception that persons who bear a clan’s name is a lineal descendant of the clan chief (ceannard cinnidh) or hereditary family. Many clansmen took their Chief’s surname to show…
Drive-by History by Mike Austin
Drive-by History by Mike Austin Take careful note of the CAUSES of these EVENTS. Look familiar? Some Great advice: It is well and good and healthy to “no longer care much about day-to-day abuses and usurpations”. As this point in the game of History and life worrying and caring about this, about that and about…