[squarebarb]

Yes, good point. I read a book called 'The Fall Of Saxon England', forget the author, of how the decadent and weak Saxon kingdoms just groveled before the Danes. Who were sea-going terrorists of the first order.


We think of the old Saxon kings as rowdy and hardy fellows with horns on their heads but actually the royal families became rich and weak and decadent. When the Danes arrived they roamed through England at will, killing, robbing and setting fire to anything that would burn. It went on for a century, I believe.

And all the Saxon kings could do was to rob their own people of all they could get in gold and pay them off. And give them territory. Notably East Anglia.

[tiamat]

Exactly.

And there are bunches of tall, blonde, blue-eyed people in Norhtern Ireland and Scotland to prove it, too.