[thesligoduffyflynns]

A good reminder of what civilized nations are up against

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/14/report-from-valhalla-on-the-war-of-fourteen-centuries/

[ClearCase_guy]

http://www.flashfictiononline.com/fpublic0039-watchtower-lord-dunsany.html

The Watchtower — short story by Lord Dunsany

A ghost haunts a tower in Provence, waiting for the Saracens to attack. A tourist tries to help the ghost rest:

I said, “There has not been a Saracen either in France or Spain for over four hundred years.”

And he said, “The Saracens! You do not know their cunning. That was ever the way of the Saracens. They do not come for a while, no not they, for a long while, and then one day they come.”

Dunsany wrote this some time around 1920.

[piytar]

Ok, I have dropped a few +infinity comments before. That’s not enough for this one.

+0/0 (which represents a set including every number from 0 to infinity)

[gusty]

Another writer who needs to read a history book. The biggest falsehood in this story is who killed Roland. It wasn’t the Muslims, it was the Christian Basques. As for placing a liege of Charlemagne in Valhalla, well, that is as strange as it gets. First off, a Christian of that era would find the imagery offensive. Second, the followers of the old Gods would not look kindly at any of Charlemagne’s men ending up in their afterlife. If Roland ended up in Valhalla, those around him would kill him all over again. Especially since Charlemagne had 4500 followers of the old Gods killed at one sitting at the massacre of Verden during the Saxon Wars.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

you assume the author of this story is “Roland” as you know in the literature. If there are falsehoods within this piece I suggest you take them up with author and Breitbart-not me.

[Cronos]

it's kind of weird for Odin to join in a fight FOR Christendom against Allah -- both Allah and Odin have the same common enemy -- Christ

Also, Valhalla and the "die and go to the valhalla and party" is exactly like the Islamic vision of 72 virgin heaven

[Cronos]

Charlemagne, of course, was a brave champion of the West

Charlemagne was a brave champion of Christendom -- he fought not for "the west" -- which had no meaning then, but for all of christendom: east and west.

[Cronos]

For almost 1400 years, the West has had to battle the Muslim

Duh -- and what about the East? The Orthodox Byzantines were battling the Moslems as long, while the Oriental church and the Assyrian church were ground under Moslem rule but survive to today and the non-Christian Zoroastrian and Hindu and Buddhist lands were also ravaged