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When the first wave of the Canadian nonsense about things having to be more
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I guess, I guess Trudeau wants people to talk about hockey and Mabel
Syrup in their content to bring back the Canadian communist pride mother Canada, Chinada.
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same thing I am is that they're sometimes they can't get into the chat and
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to Rumble, I don't think all of that. I don't think all of
that is just shitty software, even though Crumble is notorious for that as well.
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As the description to the video details continuing on with the asher Logos series.
His only playlist on his channel, it's called out Subverted History. This
is gonna be four point one, and I think there's a four point two
and a four point three in this series. But Germanic people, the Goths
in the End of the Goths, the End of the Goths probably won't be
able to get to the third one today because of first two. I think
o't like an hour long plus or minus. I'm surprised I'm sitting in this
chair right now. I as I've been telling people and reminding people because I'm
you know, it's a way to motivate myself and so keep accountability to myself.
So I'm letting people know what I do as far as exercise daily,
and I'm in the best I guess I would say leanist. I've ever been,
not the most muscular, because I was freaking I couldn't even put my
hand in my back pocket. I was so bra when I was in my
twenties, but I'm getting I'm getting back to that. But I'm also getting
more lean than I've ever been, which is cool. Never in my life
have I done this much audio. I've never liked to run, but I
did always like the elliptical, so I've been using mine and I've been like
yesterday, I did about five I broke it up in four and then one
point one in the evening. But prior to the day before that, I
did four, and then I well three point eight and then three point eight
miles, So I did two thousand calories that day according to the meter,
which I don't think is accurate. But anyway, last night and right now,
as I sit here trying to take a deep breath, my what I
don't even know how to explain it. If it's my kidney or something in
what I would have imagine my kidney years area excruciating pain. And about the
last week I've had the sensation that I have to pee all the time,
even though I don't, it just feels like I have to, which is
annoying as shit, especially when you're trying to sleep. But then also last
night, after screaming in agony a little bit in the bedroom and trying not
to keep irritated women, uh you know, keep on waking her up.
I don't think I was, but I just didn't want to wake her up.
Went into the living room, in the in the incline, in the
recliner, kicked it back and twice and still that was like the first time
I actually felt somewhat not in excruciating pain in my what I believe is my
kidney area, but I don't know. And because I had rapped omiosis before.
After doing like this, I don't know, I walked for like ridiculous
amount of time, like miles upon miles upon miles without stopping. So I
think that's one of those things it could be going on. But anyway,
sitting in that chair, and what woke me up that time was my beat
current like that, and just all the muscles in my legs cramping up like
viciously, so I minion recliners, have to kick it up, jump up.
And then as I'm doing that, different muscles are working in different directions,
so those start cramping up, and I had to step on my feet
because they were all curled up like a dishri fee r whenever. So that
was fun. And then trying to stretch one up muscle would make the other
one cramp up. Then with inner thigh muscles were all freaking ridiculously cramping.
That was a lot of pain. And then it happened again maybe an hour
later, went through the whole shit all over again. So I'm here.
I don't know what the hell's going on. I could just be over overuse,
but I don't know what the pain is in my side. That's why
I think about it, because I'm not stopping. But anyway, here we
go. If anybody has any ideas what the fuck is wrong with me besides
the regular stuff, let me know. H fuck life. Anyway, let's
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them, and I will blame them from the grave pieces of shit. Yeah,
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Oh I didn't switch to the channel. There you go. Enjoy.
This is actually really good. I watched the most of it last night for
them. This time I didn't cut out the intro because I realized what I
was looking at. That's the God mits uns. God with us says,
life like a bow, the mind like the arrow, the target to pierce
the supreme spirit, to join mind to spirit as the shot, as a
shot arrow hits its target, to join mind to spirit as the shot arrow
hits its target. We're talking about Germanic warriors in the Goths today, and
origins ancestry are roots. The year was nine a d. And Rome was
at her peak. Crimes were to be exposed and punished. Infamy was to
whoa, whoa, whoa, What the fuck was that just jumped away?
Ahead? Hold on, this is just say He's going to be a trying
day. So I'm not in the fucking movie. No sleep, Try this
again. The year was nine a d. And Rome was at her peak.
The Roman commander Nero Claudius Drusus had been tasked with handling the German peoples
to the north, and as he picked off the disunited tribes one by one,
he made the choice to treat them roughly and unjustly. The country was
widely devastated and immense multitudes were carried away from their homes and transplanted to the
Gallic bank of the Rhine. The whole mixed multitudes thing was interesting choice of
words being's starvation, children stolen and sold into bondage, and all manner of
Roman states anstered. Atrocities were reportedly carried out. Jusis knew that the Germanic
warriors could be daunting opponents, but he also knew that they were divided into
a great many factions, and that these factions were constantly butting heads with one
another, especially with Rome's true hidden hand at play behind the scenes, fighting
a people, by all accounts devoid of such shrewdness and cunning themselves. Drusus,
sitting at the helm of a military force belonging to the mightiest empire in
the world, likely felt all but fearless, and perhaps figured his mistreatment would
strike fear in the hearts of this simple people. This would prove to be
a costly miscalculation. Resentment had long been building among the German nobles, resentment
which had recently come to a fever pitch. He recorded this with a bit
of an echo like, seemingly without a good microphone. So if you're hearing
something that looks seems a little off. That's the original recording. Regardless,
the Romans had a potent weapon on their side, a German of the Cheruski
tribe named Armenius, who, like so many Germans from noble families, had
been taken as a hostage in the loosest sense of that term, to grow
up in Rome, to learn Roman ways and culture and civilization, and learn
to respect and love the Empire, and take this attitude back to his own
people. Was employed in the Roman army to help put down revolts and better
navigate the terrain. He'd risen to prominence quickly in Rome and was well liked
and respected by all for his merit and the general disposition of his personality.
They knew he was a skilled warrior and saw flashes of brilliance as he rose
through the ranks, But little did they know what caliber of man their efficient
Roman military structure was serving to cultivate. Here who find out in a master's
stroke of subterfuge, something the Romans wouldn't have expected from the Germans, and
perhaps a learned trait that Armenius had picked up in Rome and now saw fit
to employ out of necessity, Armenius began to play the long game with Jusus
and Virus and feign alliance and devotion while secretly inventing pretexts to meet with the
most powerful German chieftains in the surrounding region. The tribes had been pushed well
past their red line with the brutal, insulting, ignoble treatment they'd endured,
and now had decided to go all in, relishing the moment they'd be able
to teach their Roman foe a lasting lesson. At an agreed upon time,
the ten Roman cohorts spread across the Germanic territory, which Armenius had previously requested
as a means of keeping the peace. Each cohort, containing approximately five hundred
Roman soldiers, were simultaneously pounced upon and slaughtered to the last man. Armenius
then rode to Varis and claimed a revolt in the north required the attention of
the Roman force. Having no reason as yet to believe Arminius was anything but
a submissive vassal, Barris set off immediately with three legions in toe, exactly
as Arminius predicted, taking the precise route he'd expected. The Germans were ready
The Roman soldiers had always been uncomfortable fighting in wholly foreign, often cold or
swampy or foggy German forests, but time tested leadership, tactics, organization,
and strength in numbers had always proved enough. Stretched out in a long marching
column, It's likely that at this point they still felt confident, if a
bit uneasy, but this confidence was about to be shattered to an extent none
of them could have predicted at the time. Without warning and believing themselves to
be in safe territory, Germanic warriors streamed out of the forests to simultaneously assailed
both sides of the all too thinly stretched column and massacred many, while throwing
the procession into confused chaos. Worse yet, the cavalry auxiliary units protecting Roman
flanks as they marched were Germans as well, and very much in on the
rebellion. The legions were now spread out, stretched thin, and surrounded.
Beating a hasty fighting retreat, the Romans finally set up a fortified camp for
the night, and after an attempt to break out of it later in the
next day, they were set upon again as a torrential rain began to pour
Their wet bows became useless, their shields and weapons water logged, and the
morale of the men must have begun plummeting to critical levels rarely experienced by a
professional Roman army trezo. I think maybe she just refreshed. I don't I'm
not catching enough of anybody else saying that there's anything wrong with the audio picture.
For a moment, anybody else is having issues, let me know.
The Roman soldier in a hastily constructed night camp, having lost their German guides,
entirely surrounded by German forests filled with German warriors, and as the unrelenting
downpour turns the foreign terrain to muck beneath his feet, he realizes just how
far he is from home, fighting men who are for the most part,
bigger, stronger, and unlike his peers, aren't mercenaries who fight for pay,
but rather fight for the love of it. They fight as sport,
as a test of courage, as ritual as release. If they live,
they go home a hero. If they die nobly and bravely, they ascend
into the afterlife as a hero, making them essentially fearless. Not only are
a multitude of various tribes now united as one in opposition. But after years
of the grossest disrespect and violence and every form of debasing intrusion, they're now
enraged and led by Arminius, a man who knew Roman armies and tactics like
few others, and was both highly motivated and competent. Picture these Romans attempting
to sleep at night, as they can't help but hear the infamous German war
chance echoing through the darkness of the pitch black forests in a low, powerful
hum. Quote, putting their shields to their mounds, as Tacitus states,
so that it may swell to a fuller and deeper sound end quote. Having
watched so many of their legionary peers slaughter, and likely having glimpsed traces of
panic in the face of their leaders despite best efforts as they struggle to find
a viable path forward, this was the ultimate test of their medal. In
a desperate attempt at escape, the Romans engaged in a night march in exactly
the territory armenies had expected, no doubt, wondering with each successive step if
it might be their last, Suddenly showing a strategic mastery of tactics once again,
a mass of Germans appeared as if from nowhere. The second in command
of Varus threw off the famed Roman discipline and flat out turned tail to escape
with his entire cavalry attachment, an attempt that would prove in vain, as
he was soon overtaken by German cavalry, who then acted as the Karmic force,
set to punish their cowardice by slaughtering them to the last man. As
Verus tried desperately to keep some semblance of order, the Germans finally swarmed onto
the frightened chaos of men, this time en mass. It was a slaughter,
and amidst it all, Verus took his own life. Everything had gone
precisely according to plan for Arminius. The defeat was so total, with estimates
of twenty thousand men dead, three entire legions, that the Emperor Augustus was
said to have walked around in a daze for several weeks afterwards, back in
Rome, pounding his head and his fists against the floors and the walls of
his palace. Who does that sound like? Remember when Germany was advancing on
Russia and Stalin had his little nervous breakdown, where he curl up in a
ball and pete himself. An Avril Harriman stepped in for him went to Russia.
Yeah down sounds a little similar, shouting Quintilius, verus, give me
back my legions. The Germans, their fury apparent, showed absolutely no mercy
in this instance, and reports were that upon returning to the area six years
later, Roman legions found grisly trophies of the defeat everywhere, purposefully left for
Roman eyes, perhaps as a lesson, a reminder, including men nailed to
trees and the remnants of many others, burnt earned and the sacred groves.
Never again would Rome attempt to conquer all of the German lands. So who
were these men? It's important to note first and foremost that if it weren't
for Roman sources, we have known absolutely nothing of Arminius and his actions.
The Germanic peoples, very broadly speaking, disprized writing and instead preferred bards and
the human voice and recounting their great tales. How many other heroes and exceptional
stories of great courage, competence, daring have thus gone unsung in our age.
We may never know the answer to this, but the following will be
a clumsy attempt to bring together some of what we do know. Discussing the
Goths and Germanic peoples is a daunting task, not only because it's a subject
of such immense historical importance, but because there are few historical topics so rife
with misinformation. This says on the screen. Modern modern academics have recently,
I don't know if it's a proper tense for began but begun claiming. Yeah,
recently begun claiming that the sbastika was solely used by Arians in the East,
in India, Persia, et cetera. Misdirection, confusion, and muddied
waters. This aggressively pushed new theory claims that the symbol was merely co opted
by Germany in the nineteen thirties. Now it's their ancient symbol of their of
their ancestry. I believe one of the main reasons for this is due to
the post World War two paralysis. As an entire people were pushed into a
state of self flagellation and the most extreme sort of shame and self hatred.
From the conclusion of this war forward, not only Germany, but across the
Western world. Our conception of history changed its face almost entirely simultaneous with the
changing face of academia. Any data that painted Germanic or into Aryan peoples into
positive light was viewed with extreme skepticism and almost always dismissed out of hand or
buried or ignored, whereas historical accounts that fit the reverse narrative were actively sought
out, embraced, championed. And that's exactly how they carry pick studies that
are paid to have a specific result. So when people talk about peer review,
when they talk about this or that allopathic claim of health or wellness,
it's all should be. It should be considered with discernment. This happens naturally
and unconsciously in an environment in which the cultural pendulum has swung so far in
one direction. The expression of the victors writing the history books is more deeply
true than most could even fathom. And though we sometimes think of this type
of bias as a determinant of which individual facts might be included or tossed out,
it goes far deeper than this. The underlying premise we set out with
the fundamental narratives and storylines, the frame of reference determines how we create our
fact picture of history. It acts as the root from which all brand you
see this, Do you see this propaganda on the screen. Preserving my children's
innocence is an act of preserving weight supremacy. Abolish the white race. The
goal of abolishing the white races on its face so desirable that so many find
it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed weight
supremacists. That's Harvard Magazine. That's what you pay through the nose or for
your children to go and get an education. The uncomfortable truth is BBC this
week. That's the name of it. Not this week. Obviously, this
was made in twenty fifteen. I think the uncomfortable truth is that the white
race. White race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth.
I guess they've not been in place else. That's his spring. When
the root is infected by serious bias, everything which springs from it will inevitably
be a result of this built in bias. In such a natural appa.
You catch that one on the top left, it says Jesus the first transgender
man. Anything to agitate the senses and completely make your mind. I don't
know, not even schism explode an organic fashion that it often goes when recognized
for what it is. When we approach history dishonestly, when we paint an
inaccurate picture for future generations, we're committing one of the greatest sins it's possible
to commit. It's a profound disservice to the dead, especially those who lived
lives of self sacrifice and service to something higher than themselves. But it's an
equally powerful disservice to those young minds being molded in shaped We need truth and
an accurate picture of reality in order to learn the lessons from the past that
better help them develop in a healthy manner. I've long considered this to be
one of the greatest tragedies of our age, and it's one of the many
reasons I launched this series. I won't go too far down these paths for
the moment, as I value my YouTube channel and reach and fully recognize this
isn't a platform on which one can expect to be honest on such topics and
hope to go unpunished. But I do hope to bring to light the story
of the ancient Gothic and Germanic peoples. In what I believe is a more
objective manner than most. As with the other videos, this is so far
from prehensive that a more honest title might have been the tip of the Iceberg,
A prelude to an introduction to a prelude of an introduction to the Germanic
Peoples. But also as with the other videos, I expect these two videos
will just be the first on the topic, with more to follow, So
here we go. Origins is a tricky word, and of course it's rarely
used with technical accuracy with regards to human history. Definitively, tracing the origins
of a people to a specific area is virtually impossible short of hard and fast
knowledge that they sprung from the soil or were created by a higher power on
a certain patch of ground at a given time. The word is largely a
misnomer, and what we usually mean by it is that a people were highly
concentrated in a given area at a given time before spreading outwards. Tracing the
origins of the Germanic peoples is especially difficult, perhaps more so than any other
group, and the reason for this difficulty is a key point of this video.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that these were largely settled tribes who rarely
moved were migrated, but rather milled around in European forests for millennia. The
ancestors of Gota, Beethoven, Heisenberg, and von Braun were supposedly exclusively contained
on this small patch of land, contributing little to nothing to the larger storyline
of empires, cultures, and peoples. I was taught this growing up,
and in part due to the gravitas of modern academic consensus, I believed it
myself to some degree for much of my life, until I became completely engrossed
in the subject of history and began to seek out the oldest, first hand
historical accounts and the broader picture, at which point my perspective changed entirely.
One of these accounts was written by a man of Gothic lineage himself around five
hundred, a summarization of a still more ancient source written by Cassiodorus, which
unfortunately has been lost to us. This man was called Jordanis, and I
highly recommend reading his story in full. I may even narrate it at some
point if the interest is there, and I've linked it below in the video
description. His account, which seems to agree with the others of his era
and beyond, speaks to a people that were anything but domesticated and locked in
place, very much the opposite, and after all of my research, I
can't help but believe the long migration of the Goths that he highlights was hardly
unique in the history of the Indo Aryan peoples, but rather a hallmark and
defining element of their character. This urge to strike out to explore, especially
when success in any given region caused a population density that restricted their desire for
individual plots of land to call their own. And another prominent reason for movements
and migrations, one made especially difficult to discuss in today's atmosphere, seems to
be something almost akin to what we today call white flight, a fleeing from
environments that no longer felt comfortable, safe, or healthy for any reason,
or that prevented them in any way from living the types of lives they sought
to lead, or more importantly, restricted their freedoms in any way. The
history of the Germanic peoples seems to be one of volkswanduro, and the debate
still rages as to what region they inhabited in ancient times prior to major splits
and migrations, with some certain it was in or near Scandinavia, others just
as certain it started near the Caucasus, or Iran, or India, or
even the Middle East. This is a profoundly intriguing topic and one I'll be
devoting future videos to, But in an effort to prevent this video from being
excessively long, I believe the best summary to be this. I think most
of the confusion here is precisely due to that characteristic of the Arians previously mentioned,
namely that this larger genetic and cultural family spread exceedingly far and wide over
the period from approximately three to four thousand BC to three or four hundred AD.
Keep in mind that individuals of fair eyes and hair and skin tall in
stature of the I and R one A and R one B happler groups have
been found in large numbers as far afield as China, India, Iran,
all throughout the Black Sea region, extending into North Africa, even the Americas
and of course Europe, and were truly everywhere in between. For example,
ancient DNA testing has confirmed the presence of haplogroup marker R one A in four
seventeen in samples from the accorded Ware culture in Germany dating to twenty six hundred
BC, from Takarian mummies dating to about two thousand BC in Northwest China,
from Kurgan burials circa sixteen hundred BC, from the Enternovo culture in southern Russia
and southern Siberia, as well as from a variety of other Iron Age sites
from Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and Central Asia. And these weren't simply
into visual travels and settlements. Aside from the royal element, those rulers and
leaders and chieftains who so often kept detailed records of genealogy for dynastic purposes,
the broader populations could easily lose track of their relation to one another over time.
His process is best thought of in the manner of a family tree,
visual with a single route branching out into exponential complexity. And even though the
branches might remain relatively free of racial and cultural admixture from the outside, they
would over time develop their own unique manifestation of that larger culture, with their
own heroes and tales and other unifying and distinctive elopments. There's a real beauty
in this these manifest stations of independent storylines, all dancing around and reflecting the
same core elements, each in their own unique way. But it also of
course makes the history a bit trickier to properly sort and sift. So to
simplify, we're going to pick up their tale around the point which Jordanis himself
first speaks of a definitive large migration, a movement which may have been a
retracing of a previous migration path, as the Danube and Rhine might well be
thought of as something of a frequently traveled highway between northern Europe and the Black
Sea region. Agreeing with Cassiodorus, the history from whom most of his work
is derived, he dates this movement of his Gothic ancestors to approximately fifteen hundred
BC, arriving into the land of Scythia, indicating just how easily Germanic peoples
would expand and fragment into tribes, each with their own name and personal identity.
He mentions one group delayed to their slower ships, being called the Gepidi,
a lighthearted Gothic insult of sorts meaning slow or stolid, and mentions later
a large separation of the two major groups due to a bridge failing before the
entire migration party acrossed. Intriguingly, he pins these mysterious words with regards to
yet another separation of people's in this long migration. Quote Philmer king of the
Goths, found among his people certain witches, whom he called in his native
tongue helliarne. Suspecting these women, he expected helli yarne. Okay, put
a pin in that. And then what do they do with these quote unquote
witches? People who practice witchcraft, people who are into this sorcery, this
bakan stuff. But perhaps his bakan stuff is quite old, and this will
be the defining difference between those who were going to be discussing and who we
talked to. The oral in the book and the people that Amen talk about
without any distinction. Made that there's even different people who didn't follow this type
of sorcery, because in Amin's mind or the way he's presenting history, it
was all jacked up and there were no noble people. And that's what he's
painting the picture for. It's not it's it's a little lopsided. Spelled them
from the midst of his race and compelled them to wander in solitary exile afar
from his army. There the unclean spirits who beheld them as they wandered through
the wilderness, bestowed their embraces upon them, and begat this savage race which
dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and pune tribe,
scarcely human and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human
speech. Now who's he talking about here? And is this a nod?
Do those who would later claim a very long heritage and create a Bible in
the Hellenistic period after getting an education by the Greek, learning Greek, thinking
in Greek, You get my drift? Such was the descent of the Huns
who came to the country of the Goths end quote. This expulsion, if
true, was to set the stage for later events that would completely change the
scope of the world history. Jordanis mentions the Goths eventually settling in the region
around the Black Sea, which we spoke of in the part two of this
series, as the central hub of the Scythian peoples, and this shouldn't be
surprising. The blanket racial designation of Scythian was virtually synonymous with the Gothic people
for many ancient historians, and one might include Thracian, even Dacian and the
later term Dramatic among these blanket terms so often used by older sources to refer
to a large racial and cultural value peoples. I very much agree with the
Anglo Saxon historian Sharon Turner when he says, quote the Anglo Saxons, Lowland,
Scotch, Normans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans, Dutch,
Belgians, Lombards and Franks have all sprung from that great fountain of the human
race, which we have distinguished by the term Scythian, German or Gothic end
quote. And I believe this broader perspective provides a much more clear and helpful
understanding of history. Jordana speaks of his people's ancient battle with the Egyptians,
recounting the legendary Scythian Gothic king Tanaosis and his routing of Cissostres and approximately thirteen
hundred BC, chasing him all the way back to Egypt and on the return
journey, subjugating much of Asia, making the lands subject to Soreness, king
of the Medes, who was quote his dear friend. Another illustration of the
close connection in kinship between peoples presented in most modern historical accounts as wholly disconnected
and unrelated to one another. It's interesting to note either more than one source
speaks of how a band of Trojans, twelve thousand strong in most accounts,
led by Priam and Antenor, sailed from Troy to the River Dawn in Russia
and onto Pannonia on the River Danube, settling near the Sea of Azov,
which of course is where we find our Goths and Scythians later mentioned founding a
city called Secambria. Jordana speaks of one king of the Ghetai, a Gothic
people, as being Telephus, a son of Hercules and the husband of the
sister of Cream of Trojan fame. Telephus quote was of towering stature and terrible
strength. He matched his father's valor by virtues of his own, and also
recalled the traits of Hercules by his likeness and appearance. Our ancestors called his
kingdom Moisia. This province has on the east the mouths of the Danube,
on the South Macedonia, on the west Histria, and on the north the
Danube. End quote, Jordanis goes on to recount the personal battles of Telefus
with Ajax, Ulysses and Achilles, and eventually being mortally wounded in the fight.
He also mentions Cyrus attacking the Ghetai, whose queen was Tomyris, the
same Tomrius mentioned as queen of the Scythians in Part two of our series,
who went on to route Cyrus and his Persians to avenge the death of her
son. Darius too was to try his luck against them. So that's Cyrus
getting his head dipped in blood there, Scythian and God by the pissed off
mom. I love that people only to meet the same fate despite an army
reputed to contain seven hundred thousand men, likely due to those high the mobile
guerrilla warfare and scorched earth tactics highlighted in the Scythian video following Darius's failure quote.
After his death, his son Xerxes planned to avenge his father's wrongs and
so proceeded to undertake a war against the Goths with seven hundred thousand of his
own men. And three hundred thousand armed auxiliaries, twelve hundred ships of war,
and three thousand transports. But he did not venture to try them in
battle, being overawed by their unyielding courage. So he returned with his force
just as he had come, and without fighting a single battle. End quote.
And those of you that are members of Patreon at disguised limits, I
just dropped the free pdf of Getica by Jordanis into the feed for you,
so you'll have that for your study, for your research into you or an
ancestry. This illustrates and important. Sorry I'm not even speaking correct today,
I'm so messed up. And unique element of this people and their history.
Almost universally across any historical account, you're likely to find they were spoken of
with respect, even by their enemies, As Edred Thorson states in his Mysteries
of the Goths quote, this prestige certainly had a metaphysical dimension as well.
Gothic identity was not merely a random or arbitrary thing. It implied a degree
of greatness and bore a whole series of ideological traits as well. Freedom,
independence, heroism, individualism, within group, solidarity. End quote. This
was a people that cared deeply about upholding the honor of their name, seemingly
both as tribute to their ancestors and a gift to their descendants, and would
sooner die than be seen as cowardly, scheming, weak, ignoble, or
otherwise unjust not scheming. So definitely not like the merchants and road bandits right,
certainly not like the habrew sagaz that we were talking about in the New
History of the Jews with Eustace Mullins a little while back, and what came
up with the stef unver stop and talk just this Saturday or Sunday. This
innate characteristic would follow them, And Tacitus speaks of their own internal governing and
decision making being dictated in a similar manner, stating the very prestige of a
chief may settle a war, and mentioning how leadership was by example, not
authority, gravitas, and prestige and respect as opposed to an arbitrary, superimposed
social or political structure. I believe this allowed for the formation of a much
more natural and healthy hierarchy, one which was capable of adjusting in real time
and required leaders to conduct themselves in manner befitting their position. Onom this note,
it's stunning to see how closely the accounts of Herodus and Pompeius Tragus and
others of the ancient Scythians near those of Tacitus's later accounts of the Germans.
Another testament to this prestige is the story of Philip, father of Alexander the
Great, who had made alliance with the Goths by taking to wife a daughter
of a Gothic king. However, needing money, made the mistake of attacking
Odessus, a city of Mosia, which was subject to the Goths. It's
said that at the approach of the Macedonians quote, those priests of the Goths
that are called the holy Men suddenly opened the gates of Odesss and came forth
to meet them. They bore harps and were clad in snowy rogues, enchanted
in sepplate strains to the gods of their fathers, that they might be propitious
and repel the Isn't that a liar? Not a harp? Isn't a harp
like something that stands on the ground is a big, huge thing. That's
a liar that their hold Correctdonians, when the Macedonians saw them coming with such
confidence to meet them, they were astonished, and so to speak, the
armed were terrified by the unarmed. Straightway, they broke the line they had
formed for battle, and not only refrained from destroying the city, even gave
back those whom they had captured outside by right of war. Then they made
a truce and returned to their own country. Such accounts seem almost unbelievable until
viewed in totality with the rest of the accounts of the reputation that followed these
people, whom I believe may be those mysterious royal Scythians, Herodotus and others
mentioned as the foremost among the related scattered tribes. On this note, before
we follow the trail back into Europe, i'd be remiss not to mention a
theory posited by Thor Heyerdahl and others which suggests that the fame Assir, the
deified tribe of gods or leaders at the heart of Norse and Germanic ancestor worship,
as well as Odin himself, were very real people. They get deified
over time, and usually that's a corruption, and the Frisians discussed this in
the Orlando book that we read a lot of, but not all of yet.
The term is etymologically connected to ancees meaning half gods, which further stretches
back to a proto Indo European word essentially meaning life force and Avestin and Sanskrit
terms meaning lord and godhood. It's widely believed this word stems from a still
more ancient term meaning to create produce. He makes the argument for an etymological
connection of Asir to the Aziri of Azerbaijan, which Heyerdhal and others posit as
being their ancient pre migration homeland. The word azir and Persian means fire and
in Turkic means high. Could that have something to do with the color of
their hair being read? The Icelandic Sagas speak in a matter of fact manner
about the Assir people and their principal settlement being in a city wedged along the
Caucasus mountains. European royalty routinely traced their lineage back through Troy, the Scythians,
and even Odin himself until fairly recent times, in which these figures began
to be framed as fictitious gods, and to their credit, these genealogies seemed
to make sense in the broader scope of written accounts. Thor Heyerdahl had been
working on a deeply intriguing book he called The Hunt for Odin, which no
doubt would have provided a great deal of more helpful context here, but sadly
died before its completion. He not only claimed Odin was a flesh and blood
figure, but also broke from others in that he didn't place him in the
most remote antiquity, but rather as a respected chieftain who helped lead one of
the mass migrations back to the west. To quote Snorri Sturlison of author the
Norse EDAs, at that time when Odin lived, the Romans were conquering far
and wide in the region. When Odin learned that they were coming towards the
land of Theesers, he decided that it was best for him to take his
priests, chiefs, and some of his people and moved to the northern part
of Europe. End on the website Osterholme Net, which I've linked below and
seems to contain a trove of useful information, albeit much of it not yet
embraced by academia. Mentions that The most prominent clan to travel with the Asir
were the Ral warriors or the Erlar, meaning wild warriors. The Aesir sent
the Erlar or Arillar north as seafaring warriors to secure land and establish trade.
These warriors were called the Earls and Yarls and later Scandinavian society, and known
as the Herules and Heralai by the Romans. The clans enabled the Asir clans
later called the SphI, Spayar, Svie, Severe or Spiona by the Romans,
to establish settlements throughout the region, but not without continuous battles with the
Goths and other migrating Germanic tribes. The Arals or Heroes eventually made peace with
the Goths, who ruled the region. The tribes of the Sphere, Vanyr,
and Heruli soon formed their own clans and dominated the Baltic and Scandinavian region
the Gothic history in Giordanis, who was a notary of the Gothic kings,
told about five hundred and fifty one a d. That the Danier were from
the same stock as the Sphere, both taller and fairer than any other people
in the north. The Sphere population flourished, and with the Herols and Goths
formed a powerful military alliance of well known seafarers. The Sphere and Heralds then
gradually returned to their ancestral land beginning in the second century AD, sometimes sailing
with the Goths. They terrorized all the lands and peoples of the Black Sea
and parts of the Mediterranean, even the Romans. They were the pre vikings
end, and indeed we find several mentions of the Heralds in the works of
Tacitus, Jordanis and others, spoken of as especially famed and respected warriors.
These topics are still hotly debated, as they should be, and some of
this is subjective speculation, albeit educated speculation. But my advice would be to
beware those who dismiss such accounts out of hand without hard evidence. The modern
approach seems to be to start with the premise that nearly all historical accounts are
false or flawed, Whereas I tend to think that most of the histories were
penned with genuine intent, i e. For the purpose of retaining an account
of actual happenings, and I believe there should be a burden of proof,
but there should also be a burden to disprove if this makes sense, especially
in the cases in which we only have a single document or two to make
use of, and when the information contained within fits cleanly into and fills in
the blanks of a larger fact picture, the word debunk in our age seems
to have somehow become all powerful, and skeptics have a way of destroying and
dragging with a good mud and a theory that strays from their chosen storyline.
This strikes me as dangerous. So as we slowly move west into Europe,
pushed at times by Rome, at times by population growth, at times by
incursions of both foreign and brother peoples from the east, in a domino effect,
the Scythians, using the broadest definition here, seem to almost seamlessly morph
into the Goths, again using the broader definition. Interestingly, Strabo and Pliny
the Elder separated the Scythians into two elements, the Sarmati and the Germani,
the latter term derived from the Latin german Us, meaning genuine of the same
parents. Recall in Part two where we spoke of the royal Scythians often being
referred to as the genuine Scythians. It may be that the Sarmati were a
Scythian element with some foreign admixture, whether racial or cultural or both. Interestingly,
the Anglo Saxons were also known as the Germani. Strabo further refers to
a people known as the Celto Scythia or the Celtic Scythians. As one writer
puts it, if we go back five hundred years from the point of when
the Teutonic languages began to differentiate, we discover that great swaths of northern,
Western, and Eastern Europeans spoke similar dialects of a common Indo European language.
When scholars try to pin a label on a particular European barbarian tribe as being
Germanic or Celtic or Scythian, they often find themselves in a quandary. Distinctions
are often unclear and can easily become arbitrary. End quote. It's vital to
keep in mind prior to the bulk of the Goths arriving back into Europe,
their German brothers were already present on the land, with the Symbrian War kicking
off the conflict between Roman and Germanic peoples in earnest and approximately one hundred and
ten BC, and others too, giving Julius Caesar a taste of what was
to come, as he mentions firsthand in his work the Commentaries on the Gallic
War. Almost from the start there was a relationship of mutual respect, at
least with regards to martial capabilities, and the Romans too, held to one
of the longest traditions across all Indo European societies, and employing almost exclusively Scythian
and Germanic peoples in the personal bodyguard of the leadership, in this case the
Roman emperor, a hand picked elite cadre of men chosen for both fighting merit
and an unshakable sense of loyalty and honor. The Praetorian or Varangian or Swiss
guard unit loyalty and honor virtues that we are so dearly in need of and
so much deprived of, And this is why we need to reconnect. We
need to reconnect with our past and understand who we are and rediscover our nobility.
We're going to need it. Units are just a few examples of this
long standing custom, a custom which I personally believe originated with the Royal Scythians
as a means to protect royal lineages. Tacitus gives us the best account of
the ancient Germans in their natural state, and I highly recommend his works,
especially Germania, for those seeking additional context. He's not merely a brilliant man,
but seems to possess an especially healthy and well oriented mind, coupled with
judgment and foresight to see many things that those around him seem to miss.
I've linked his audiobook below for those interested, but to cover a few interesting
excerpts. He speaks of the German aim being a fairly recent invention and a
misnomer, a Roman interpretation of the name of a single tribe, which they
then lazily applied to all of the scattered tribes. He speaks of ancient songs
and bards being the mechanism for passing down history and stories, and mirroring the
Scythian legends quote they say that Hercules too once visited them, and when going
into battle, they sing of him first of all heroes, and speaks of
the infamous war chants they employed. Ulysses, too was spoken of as having
visited and founded an ancient town. Antacitis speaks of a shrine of him containing
Greek inscriptions still existing on the borders of Germany. Their kings were chosen by
birth, their generals by merit. Neither had unlimited power, and they led
by personal example quote the very prestige of a chief may settle a war end
quote. And it was considered a disgrace for a chief to be surpassed in
valor and infamy to have survived a battle in which one's chief had died,
which I believe hints at one of the many reasons why the Germans were so
highly sought in the Praetorian and Baharankian and all similar royal bodyguard units. Their
squadrons of fighting men weren't formed by chance, he says, no doubt,
contrasting Rome's mercenary structure, but composed of families and clans, meaning they'd always
fight alongside brothers and kim and be encouraged to have their wounds tended to by
women who were wives or relatives who quote tradition says that armies already wavering and
giving way, have been rallied by women who, with earnest entreaties and bosoms
laid bare, have vividly represented the whores of captivity, which the Germans fear
with such extreme dread on behalf of their women, and quote, they even
believed that the sex has a certain sanctity and pressing, and they do not
despise their councils or make light of their answers end quote, much like the
Frisians that we land about in the Orlanded Book. I just want to keep
on driving these commonalities home, because we're going to re enter into the Orlanded
Book here soon. Like so many other Indo European peoples, they seem to
place the highest value on maidens of noble birth. After all, a man
is technically capable of passing his genetic lineage down to hundreds, even thousands of
descendants in the manner of a ginghis khan or perhaps even heracles. So it's
the woman who is the key component in this regard. He speaks of the
style of dress as cloaks fastened with a clasp or with skin fitting clothing made
from wild beasts, and speaks of the inner tribes as dressing better. Their
diet was largely composed of wild fruit and fresh game and kerdle milk. Similar
to all other writers, he speaks very highly of their sense of and customs
with regards to justice. Crimes were to be exposed and punished, Infamy was
to be buried out of sight. Good habits, he says, were more
effectual than good laws. Elsewhere, he speaks of them as a race with
no natural cunning, and regarding their trade and barter, the vitally important line
of interest, they know nothing, and says no nation is more hospitable,
and it was their custom to give and receive freely, feeling no obligation from
either action. Like the Spartans and Scythians and so many other related peoples,
each individual, in a right of passage must earn their arms, and abandoning
one's shield was considered the basest action, resulting in shunning. They considered it
quote tame and stupid to acquire by immense toil what they might win by courage,
valor, or blood, and didn't well tolerate close quarters with regards to
living spaces, but spread out freely to whatever areas attracted them. They often
indulged in what he calls games of hazard, sparring, and warlike contests,
sometimes wagering their own freedom, and in exceptional cases even their lives in the
competitions, and with regards to slavery, the type practiced by those Tacitus observed
was very different from that we are accustomed to. Each quote slave was given
a house of their own and acted as indentured servants, required to give a
certain amount of produce periodically. Each tribe seems to have created its own niche
culture within the larger framework. One of the more intriguing descriptions of a wilder
tribe on the border lands is as follows. Quote. The Hari, besides
being superior in strength to the tribes just enumerated savage as they are, make
the most of their natural ferocity by the help of art and opportunity. Their
shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark knights for battle,
and by the dread and gloomy aspect of their deathlike host, strike terror into
the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance. For
in all battles it is the eye which is first vanquished. End. In
another description, he speaks of the Kimbri, likely descendants of the Camerians.
Quote. In the same remote corner of Germany bordering on the Ocean, dwell
the Chimbri, a now insignificant tribe, but of great renown of their ancient
glory. Widespread traces yet remain on both sides of the Rhine are encampments of
vast extent, and by their circuit he may even now measure the warlike strength
of the tribe and find evidence of that mighty immigration. Rome was in her
six hundred and fortieth year when we first heard of the Kimbrian invader, in
the consulship of Kellis Mattelus and Papirius Carbo, from which time to the second
consulship of the Emperor Trajan we have to reckon about two hundred and ten years.
So long have we been in conquering Germany. In the space of this
long epoch, many losses have been sustained on both sides. Neither Samnite nor
Carthaginian, nor Spain nor Gaul, not even the Parthians have given us more
frequent warnings. German independence truly is fiercer than the despotism of an Osasis.
Germans, by routing or making prisoners of Carbo, Cassius, Scausrelius, Servilius,
Capio Marcus Manlius, deprived the Roman people of five consular armies, and
they robbed even a caesar of Varus and his three legions. They stormed the
winter camp of our legions, and even designed the conquest of Gaul. May
the tribes, I pray, ever, retain, if not the love for
us, at least the hatred for each other end quote. One of the
many reasons Tacitus has not been given due credit in our times is due to
a single statement that to this day drives the politically correct mindset into a frenzy.
Quote. For my own part, I agree with those who think that
the tribes of Germany are free from all taint of intermarriages with foreign nations,
and they appear as a distinct, unmixed race, like none but themselves,
hence too the same physical peculiarities through so vast a population end quote. Now
keep in mind he's referencing a large group of people here, not a nation,
as Germany itself didn't exist as a nation until very recently. Also keep
in mind, as he witness modern academics trip over themselves to dismiss these words
in any and every novel manner they can dream up. Here was one of
the best minds of his age, sober and prudent, who had perhaps more
experience with the varied races of humanity and every possible mixture among them, due
to us observing both Germania and the increasingly multicultural Empire of Rome than any of
his peers, stating this opinion with definitive confidence. So let's take a moment
to speak to the Goths, specifically, as defined by those who saw them
in their most narrow and specific form. First, the name the grim brothers,
noted as great historical minds in addition to being masterful. Authors believe the
term Goth to be closely connected to the German God meaning God. Others have
suggested the term meant nobly born, and there's an obvious connection to the root
goot meaning good. I tend to think that there's likely a grain of truth
to most of these connections, directly or indirectly. Second, as to the
physical description, the historian Henry Bradley sums up the almost universal description with quote,
Goths are always discribed not as there's a woman up run. They highly
regarded their council by their berg maidens, and the great mothers, not that
great mother, not the one, not Medea, not referring to her decribed
as tall and athletic men with fair complexions, blue eyes, and yellow hair,
such people as in fact, might be seen more frequently in Sweden than
in any other land end quote, and the Arab diplomat Ibin Fadlin would later
describe the Viking rus likely the most direct outgrowth of the Gothic peoples, as
they came to be known under different name, there's the tide of Russians,
by saying quote, never before have I seen people of more perfect physique.
They were tall like palm trees, blonde, with a few of them red.
They do not wear any jackets or kaftan eir robes. The men instead
wear dress which covers one side of the body but leads one hand free.
Every one of them brings with him an acts, a sword, and a
knife end quote. Third, as to their general personality and manner of being,
the historian Bradley continues quote that the Gothic people had many noble qualities was
frequently acknowledged even by their enemies, and it is abundantly proved by many incidents
in their history. They were brave, generous, patient under hardship and privation,
and chaste and affectionate in their family relations end quote. When they get
back into the Scythians, you're going to find out that, apart from having
no regard for valuable's gold or the marketplace, they ran their entire community through
entire land as one big family. And then continues with an interesting aside that
despite their history of achievement and successes, I too have come to agree with
quote, there is nothing in their history more remarkable than the humanity and justice
which they exercised towards the nations whom they conquered end quote. He goes on
to state that this was recognized by their foes, who often went so far
as to welcome their appearance on the scene as liberators. In a remarkably objective
quit, a Roman named Salvian, an ecclesiastic of Marseilles, stated, there
is one consenting prayer among the Roman population that they might dwell under the Barbarian
government. Thus, our brethren not only refuse to lead these nations for their
own, but they fly from us to them. Can we then wonder that
the Goths are not conquered by us when the people would rather become Goths with
them than Romans with us? End quote fourth with regards to their belief structure,
I've always loved this snippet by Tacitus, which I believe to be fundamental
in importance. Quote. The Germans, however, do not consider it consistent
for the grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods within walls or to liken
them to the form of any human countenance. They consecrate woods and groves,
and they apply the names of deities to the abstraction, which they see only
in spiritual worship. End To me, this meaning is clear. The capital
g God, creator of all things, was something beyond direct human understanding or
quantification, and certainly beyond the ability for fallible human minds or hands to create
in the form of idols to then be worshiped. Nature worldA in the form
of sacred groves was the closest proxy. They certainly practiced a veneration of ancestors
bordering on a form of worship, and held in extremely high esteem both Hercules
and the archetype of Tiwas or Tire also known as Ares to the Greeks,
Mars to the Romans, who they saw as the personification of war, law
and justice. Simultaneously, Odin Will and Freya. There's a great deal more
to be said on the subject, but I couldn't hope to do it justice
here, so I'll leave it at this for now. After a few more
words about the concept of ancestor veneration, Edward Thorson states that the Gothic families
maintained secret traditions stretching back to the time of their origins. Quote. It
is these sources which account for their success and the immortality of their name.
These traditions hinged on the continuing secret cult of divine ancestry, the hidden cult
of the ancees. The formula of divine ancestry must be understood in both its
parts. First, the idea is that there is a divine, immortal,
perfect and wise component or element or substance which is not bound by time or
place. This transcends the mundane world stands above it. Second is the idea
that this substance can be transmitted or transferred from person to person or from generation
to generation through historical time and over natural space. We know that this ancestral
portion could be transmitted genetically through the blood or through symbolic initiations blood brotherhood,
adoption, reception into warrior bands, guilds, et cetera. Although these latter
methods were well known to the Pagans and well documented among them, it appears
that, under the influence of the Christian tradition of apostolic succession, these later
methods grew to be more and more prestigious over the centuries. This increasingly became
the method whereby the threatened esoteric of the Goths could be secretly transmitted and thus
protected from an ever more hostile world. End quote, and with regards to
Christianity, the evidence seems to contradict the popular notion. Many still hold that
all Germanic peoples were dragged, kicking and screaming into a new religious conception,
or forced at the point of the sword. In fact, the very first
book written in the Gothic language was a translation of the Bible pinned by a
man the Emperor dubbed our Second Moses, a Gothic Cappadocian named Vulphilap literally transcribed
as little Wolf in the third century AD. Now, of course, this
wasn't modern Christianity, much of which seems to have been subverted into something of
an extension of the very worldly social justice movement, but rather a much more
strict and true to form conception. The bigger leap didn't seem to be to
Christianity, whose central focus on a self sacrificing figure bore some resemblance to Odin,
who was hung on a tree and in some stories pierced by a spear.
The more difficult leap was rather to Catholicism, as opposed to that aryan
form of Christianity, which was more familiar and comfortable to them, and they
didn't require they bend the knee to priests and churches of Rome. The Franks,
the Germanic people largely responsible for the creation of France as we know it
today, acting as Rome's first and strongest allies, willing to adopt Catholicism,
where in some sense task with its spread across all German lands, a difficult
and bloodied transition, in part planting the seeds of the Protestant and Catholic conflicts
of later eras. It's also deeply interesting that the Goths and Norse were referred
to as the Maju during the Visigothic period in Spain, with the non Gothic
elements making no distinction between them and the magi of Zoroastrian Persian fame, a
term he might recognize in part from the Three Wise Men of the Biblical tradition.
Rome, especially the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinian, would begin to exploit
this Catholic and Aryan rift as a means of establishing greater control over the Goths,
or attempting to destroy those he couldn't control. A hallmark trait of the
Germanic people seems to be an unwillingness to bow to any form of centralized authority
that doesn't spring from their own roots. A lesson foreign rulers would be to
learn and relearn several times throughout history, often at the point of an extremely
proficient sword. We'll discuss this and get to know the Gothic people through an
examination of their dynamic with Rome, the Huns, the Jews, and the
Saracens in the next installment in our series, which I hope to release within
a week or two from now, and which may be followed by a third
video shortly after. As it's simply impossible to condense this story into a single
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So the Germanic people's the goths and order. Wow, they put that in
the title. Might mean that that means something to them. Huh, defining
markers of the people. What do you know? There you go? So
this is an hour and one minute in eleven seconds, and we're at nine
seventeen am right now, so we'll be going till about ten eighteen today.
I'm kind of also saying that in case the people over at FTJ are running
this as the radio thing, to know one to cut me so they can
put the next people on, because I have a block that goes till ten,
So if they're monitoring it, they'll also know to cut it so that
I'm not bleeding over onto the next person. So I believe it'syi seppy.
As we turn our focus on the dynamic between the Roman and Gothic people,
it kind of sounds like in the background, me me me me, me,
me me me. It's kind of funny for anyway. I'm not trying
to make light of it. It's just what I call people. The subversive
nature of post World War II history becomes most evident the picture of an all
powerful civilized Rome annoyed by Goths, and the manner that one might be bothered
by a mosquito they might squat at any moment is absurd. In fact,
even Roman sources admit that were it not for the tactful diplomacy that kept Germanic
peoples expending energy in their traditional war games with one another, Rome would have
ceased to exist at any moment. The United Barbarian elements chose to make it
so. And the truth is even more extreme. Even while warring among one
another, the Goths were still able on several occasions to militarily dominate Rome,
both on offense and defense. This isn't meant to diminish Roman achievements, skill
or discipline, a nation with justly admired armies, tactics, and leadership,
but when viewed objectively, but hold on a second, they also memory hold
a whole lot of history, utilizing Rome as as like the uh, the
catch all for everything. If there's a pillar, then it must be a
Roman architecture. That stuff, in my mind, has been sitting there long
before Rome was Rome. It wasn't built by them anymore than the Pyramids were
built by the Egyptians that they claim inhabited after. May have decorated the walls,
may have added things to it, may have kept it and preserved it,
but they didn't I don't think they did the Pyramids either. I think
those were sitting around for a long long time. Rome, and especially late
Rome, seems a bit more like a corporate construct running on peer ambition,
seeking world domination by any means necessary, and gladly making use of any caliber
of humanity in pursuit of the school. Over time, they were to learn
many lessons, incorporate this knowledge into their formations and equipment and tactics and strategy,
and discounted for much. Coupled with a seemingly unlimited pool of manpower to
draw from, one might wonder why they didn't conquer the entire world. After
all. The answer to this question is very simple and very clear the Dramatic
peoples. The more one digs into the true relationship between these two major powers,
although two is hardly technically correct here due to the permanently fractured nature of
the Dramatic peoples, the more it looks as if the Gothic mindset was something
akin to that's a cute little human domestication experiment you have going on there.
You're welcome to do as you wish. In fact, we'll even extend an
olive branch to make common cause just don't cross us, but alas the Romans
did cross them several times and in egregious ways. A perfect example of this
treachery and its consequence, and one of the numerous stories of such important power
that it's a wonder we haven't all heard. It involves the Gothic leader named
Fritigern, having broke her to deal with the Emperor of Rome in three seventy
six AD to essentially ally the two peoples and move a large contingent of Goths
into Roman borders. We are the names of these leaders of the Goths because
each one of them is a very good example of how virtues, ethics,
morals, character, integrity. You're going to see this. You're going to
see this and be like you're going to be blown away by it. A
mutually beneficial agreement which would give the Germans additional living space and a closer relationship
with Rome, and provide Rome with a ready made source of the highest quality
soldiers and military officers, and provide both parties with an alliance against the encroachment
of peoples from the east. He began to move his Goths westward anywhere from
one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand, depending on the source one choose to
trust. The impressive terms the emperor had offered soon proved to be largely empty
promises, and serious famine began to spread, becoming so bad that many Germans
began dealing with the most shamelessly greedy of Roman traders, with stories of desperate
families going so far as to sell one child into Roman servitude to provide just
enough food for the other, or simply in order to save their lives.
Starvation was rampant. Noticing the increasing anger, the emperor decided to relocate them
in an area in which they could more easily be monitored and controlled. There
are two prominent accounts of what happened next, both speaking highly of Fritigern's heroism,
and in fact both may be true. The first mentions how he'd long
sought to quell the tempers of his own Goths and preserve the peace, yet
simultaneously had made preparations for the worst, ensuring quote the Goths would be ready
to rise as one man should the occasion arise end quote, And when invited
to a feast by Roman general, some of his near starving Gothic troops became
enraged at the sight of a fully stopped market place in which they were prevented
from buying goods, and got in a fight with and killed some Romans.
The Roman general, roused from a drunken slumber, ordered the slaughter of all
Fridigern's men. Fridigerne, the historian Bradley states, quote, in a calm
and collective stroke of genius, announced it was needful for him to show himself
to his countrymen to put a stop to the tumult end quote, and simply
walked out with his men, as the Romans looked on and stunned, unsure
of how to respond. In the second account, Jordanas states and I quote,
now it came to pass in that troublous time that Lepigmus, the Roman
general, invited Fritigern, a chieftain of the Goths, to a feast,
and, as the event revealed, devised a plot against him. But Fridigerne,
thinking no evil, came to the feast with a few followers. While
he was dining in the praetorium, he heard the dying cries of his ill
fated men, for by order of the general, the soldiers were slaying his
companions, who were shut up in another part of the house. The loud
cries of the dying fell upon ears. Already suspicious and fritigern at once perceived
the treacherous trick. He drew his sword and with great courage, dashed quickly
from the banqueting hall, rescued his men from their threatening doom, and incited
them to slay the Romans. Thus these valiant men gained the chance they had
longed for to be free to die in battle rather than perish of hunger,
and immediately took arms to kill the generals Lupiciness and Maximus. Thus that day
put an end to the famine of the Goths and the safety of the Romans.
For the Goths, no longer as strangers and pilgrims, but as citizens
and lords, began to rule the inhabitants, and to hold in their own
right all of the northern colony as far as the day. When the Emperor
balance heard of this at Antioch, he made ready an army at once and
set out for the country of Race. Here agree, this battle took place,
and the Goths prevailed. The Emperor himself was wounded and fled to a
farm near Hadrianople. The Goths, not knowing that an emperor lay hidden in
so poor a hut, set fire to it as his customary in dealing with
the cruel floe, and thus he was cremated in royal splendor. From this
time, the Visigoths, in consequence of their glorious victory, possessed Thrace and
Datia Repentses as if were their native land. This type of famine, in
this case, caused by either Roman treachery or incompetence, was exceptional, and
here we should quickly clear up another major misconception about the Germanic peoples. In
most video documentaries on the ancient Germans, you'll see a disorderly gaggle of men
who looked like they've been cast to portray over the top characters of white,
trashy savages, often obese, disheveled as if they've spent hours smearing their entire
bodies in dirt, wearing equally dirty tattered rags, waving weapons in the air
like they've never held one in their lifetimes, with faces usually twisted in their
best attempt at expressions of fierceness or rage, poor posture, looking generally unhealthy
and mentally dull, and the impression were given in videos and textbooks is that
these men lived short, brutish, miserable lives. This is very much the
opposite of what the fact picture seems to indicate. Keep in mind that,
like the later Vikings, because these were unparalleled warriors that could demand tribute from
virtually any empire at any time and often did so, they were likely the
wealthiest people in the world in a per capita context, with Rome itself paying
them. Remember, as Rome prodresses, it has a greater and great or
influence of that priestcraft that I wrote about. And therefore what you see as
Rome's deception and deceit and repainting the history isn't just quote unquote Roman Rome,
right, We're talking about the people who, as always seem to always find
the positions of power and manipulate, either by being advisors to the kings or
the Caesars or whatever. The priest craft to which they go to for answers
are always managing and manipulating the actions, deeds, and policies of the kingdom.
So when you see this deception, don't just think, oh, yeah,
the Romans were doing they were embarrassed, yeah d D. That's probably
part of it, but there's also that element, that lying element, that
merchant bandit, habrew Skagaz, the foreigners influence, the priest craft influence,
and as want you to keep that in mind every time you hear these things.
If it sounds familiar and you're like, will I can conflate Rome with
that, yeah you can, But just remember who's actually manipulating it. Isn't
somebody different that we're talking about now and vast sums of treasure regularly. Not
only has an astonishingly high level of Gothic medical technology recently been unearthed in places
like Constantinople, but several accounts report men living to ripe old ages her Menrick,
described as the Gothic Alexander, who at one point quote ruled all the
nations of Scythia and Drewmania as they were his own, lived to one hundred
and ten, and there are stories of leaders taking or holding their positions of
power well into their eighties. But it's far more than lifespan. Consider how
these men lived. It's recently been discovered that their teeth were far healthier than
the picture that's always been painted with the lack of processed foods and refined sugars
not having a chance to take their toll. Their water wasn't laden with the
chemical stew we face today. Their diet was as healthy and natural as it
gets, and of course heavy on protein. And they spent their entire day,
if not lounging or drinking by the fire, in the hunt, or
in games of sport, or in warfare or the training for warfare. Our
modern epidemics of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, et cetera didn't exist.
Yes, many met their deaths on the battlefield and their prime, but I
suspect the average man was far far healthier than the average man today. They
were also objectively larger and stronger than those around them, a trait that seems
to have been passed down through the ages, as illustrated by a glance at
the percentages of strong man competition winners hailing from Germanic nations, especially Scandinavia.
H Ah, the champion, the man with a built in megaphone, John
Fols Sigmos. Some very brave person in the crowd has actually called him an
eskimo and he's had that remarkable right. Have you had any games in something
else you might have put the record straight another way, but to the matter
and hat a small matter of four hundred and ninety five kilos all the definitive
look of clime. And on this topic, there's another fascinating story about Maximin,
a man of humble background who would eventually become emperor through accomplishment and merit
alone. A Gothic Thracian Jordanis tells us quote after his years spent in rustic
life, he had come from his flocks to military service in the reign of
Emperor Severus. And at the time when the latter was celebrated his son's birthday,
it happened that the emperor was giving military games. When Maximin saw this,
although he was a semi Barbarian youth, he besought the emperor in his
native tongue to give him permission to wrestle with the trained soldiers for the prizes
offered. Severus, marveling much at his great size, for his stature,
it is said was more than eight feet, bade him contend in wrestling with
the camp followers in order that no injury might befall his soldiers at the hands
of this wild fellow. Thereupon, Maximan threw sixteen attendants with so great ease
that he conquered them one by one without taking any rest by pausing between the
bouts. So then, when he had won the prizes, he was ordered
into the army and served his first campaign with a cavalry. On the third
day after this, when the Emperor went out to the field, he saw
him coursing about in Barbarian fashion, and bade a tribune restrain him and teach
him Roman discipline. But when he understood that the Emperor was thinking about him,
he came forward and began to run ahead of him as he rode.
Then the Emperor spurred on his horse to a slow trot, and wheeled in
many a circle, hither and thither, with various turns, until he was
weary. Then he said to him, are you willing to wrestle now after
your running, my little Thracian? As much as you like, o Emperor,
he answered, so Zeverus leaped off his horse and ordered the freshest soldiers
to wrestle with him. But he threw to the ground seven very powerful youths,
even as before, taking no breathing space between the bouts. So he
alone was given prizes of silver and a golden necklace by Caesar. Then he
was bidden to serve in the bodyguard of the emperor. After this he was
pronounced to officer, often increasing his fame by his deeds, and rose to
many military grades and finally to the centurionship as a reward for his active service.
End So many in positions of leadership in Rome, especially military, were
of German extraction. So strong was this trend that the last several centuries of
Rome's existence might be seen as a gradual transformation into a Germanic empire, as
opposed to the sudden and stark shift many have been led to believe came to
pass. The Goths, who and their disunity were pushed ever further westward by
the Huns, began to blend into Rome in a sense. Their attitude seemed
to be a mixture of respect and weariness, though at times bordering on disgust.
They admired many of Rome's achievements, the architecture, the aqueducts, the
orderliness and structure, But contrary to the impression modern history paints, they weren't
eager to destroy, conquer, or become Rome in any sense. Gothic leaders
were to make it clear time and time again What they sought was to coexist
ideally in a friendly manner. Yet the Germanic peoples were to essentially sack Rome
four times in a mere one hundred and fifty years. At virtually any point
in this period, they might have made the choice to become Romans, with
their heated floors, their multitude of bread and circuses, their marketplace, but
they very consciously chose not to do so, and they rejected the marketplace.
This is their distinction between them and potentially other related groups, blood related,
perhaps long series of hostages taken from German noble families raised nearly from birth and
Rome, yet time and time again, choosing to return to their homeland and
their people and fight for their causes speaks to this. On several occasions,
Germanic leaders speak openly about the dangers of excessive comforts. When the last emperor
to rule both East and Western Rome, Theodosius, died, whom jordanis called
a friend to and lover of the Gothic race, Jordana speaks of his sons
beginning to quote ruin both empires by their luxurious living and to deprive the Goths
of their customary tributes. The contempt of the Goths, for the Romans soon
increased and quote, for fear their valor would be destroyed by long peace,
they appointed Alaric king over them end quote. And this is telling. It's
not ambitiousness or desire for plunder that seems to drive the Germanic assaults on Rome,
but rather reactions to outright treachery or obvious degeneracy, or lack of health
and order in the empire at large. Much like Tacitus, I believe they
saw a swift decline of this once great empire and seemed earnestly to want to
salvage aspects of its greatness. Alaric is an impressive figure in Germanic history.
In his early battles with Stilico, a half German who for a time was
the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire, Alaric broke through Stilico's lineines,
marched thirty miles north and crossed a gulf before Stilico could even put his
troops in order to surprise him completely, a master stroke that the historian Bradley
states travelers who are acquainted with the ground say that this march of Alarics is
one of the most amazing feats in the historical record. By the mid fourth
century, the Goths within Rome already exercised vast control over the empire, bea
powerful figures like the kingmaker Rissmer, a capable general loved and respected by the
troops. Goths outside Rome, meanwhile, had established a very real power base
in Toulouse. During the fighting between these two forces, Rome paid a large
bribed Alaric to compel him to retreat. Amusingly, the Romans then celebrated a
triumph, treating this as a great victory, and inscribed on an arch that
the Gothic nation has been subdued, never to rise again. Words the God
no doubt read with amusement as they rode through the streets of the conquered capital.
A few years later, a revolt of sorts set this ball rolling.
In a brief fit of anti Gothic sentiment, certain Roman citizens, likely spurred
on by nefarious actors in their midst made the grievous air of turning on the
Gothic civilians while the Gothic soldiers were stationed elsewhere and slaughtered their wives and children
and looted their property. Approximately thirty thousand Gothic soldiers at once deserted the Roman
army and joined Alaric, who immediately rode from city to city, effortlessly conquering
all in his path. Finally arriving at Rome, he decided to engage in
a siege to starve the town out. The extremely stubborn Romans began to starve
to death in great numbers, and yet had the audacity to send a threatening
message to Alaric demanding good terms or else they rise up against him in large
numbers. It said that Alaric laughed at this, saying quote, the thicker
the grass, the easier it is to mow end quote, before presenting his
terms, namely, all of the gold and silver within the walls, and
all of the slaves. What should we have left then? Was said to
be the stunned reply, to which Alaric simply stated, your lives. What
makes this additionally amusing is that Alrek seems to have been merely humbling them.
Not only did he end up taking far less after they finally capitulated, but
it's reported he immediately saw to the end of the starvation, and although it
proved impossible to completely restrain the goths long built up anger, he further surprised
the conquered population by punishing those that acted most unjustly towards the conquered Romans.
Bradley states quote Alaric remembered that he was a Christian and tried to use his
victory mercifully. He told his soldiers that the plunder of the city was theirs,
but that no man was to be killed that was not wearing arms,
and soldiers were to be spared if they took refuge in the holy places.
He then departed to Tuscany, with his army even stronger now due to a
massive number of soldiers within Rome joining his ranks. Alaric could have conquered or
destroyed the entire Western Roman Empire with eaves at this stage, but he seems
to have had no desire to. He wanted a kingdom of his own alongside
and allied to Rome. This was initially agreed to by all local officials,
but amazingly, and again audaciously, a stubborn Roman emperor Honorius refused the idea,
believing himself to be safe and out of harm's way, tucked away in
Ravenna. Alaric was furious and promptly marched his army straightway to Ravenna, and
what follows is an almost comical series of losses for the Romans under Honorius,
who seemed to grow more shamelessly, arrogant and headstrong with each successive loss,
until finally destroyed completely. No history of the Goths could be complete without a
discussion of just how and why they became, out of necessity, so close
with Rome, literally and figuratively, both as friend and foe, namely the
Huns. It's important to remember that while we tend to see the Romans and
Goths as two completely distinct races of peoples, both trace back to the same
pivotal figures of legend. For example, their strong connection to the ancient ruling
families of and refugees from Troy. The senators and aristocracy in Rome likely had
significant overlap with the leading elements of the Gothic world. The intruder culture to
their east, however, was something much more foreign. The Huns, likely
born from a mixture of Scythian and Asiatic peoples, had exploded in number and
had begun constantly harrying and harassing all Germanic peoples on their borders. Jordanis tells
a tale which may be fact or Myth or somewhere in between. Speaks of
a Scythian and Hun border near the Meaotic Swamp, and a hunting party of
the Huns chasing a mysterious dough which they had reason to believe was something exceptional,
who guided them into Scythian lands before disappearing. It said that they were
filled with admiration, which quickly gave way to ambition and greed. And after
an initial raid in which they looted belongings, sacrificed many Scythians, and made
the rest subject to themselves, they decided to make a habit of the behavior.
Giordanis says quote, like a whirlwind of nations, they swept across the
great Swamp and at once swept upon the tribes on the borders of Scythia,
the Alani, who were their equals in battle, but unlike them in civilization,
manners and appearance. They exhausted by their incessant attacks and subdued for by
the tear of their features. They inspired great fear in those whom perhaps they
did not really surpass in war. They made their foes flee in horror because
their Swarthi the aspect was fearful, and they had, if I may call
it so, a sort of shapeless lump not ahead with pinholes rather than eyes.
Their hardihood is evident in their wild appearance, and they are beings who
are cruel to their children on the very day they are born. Sounds a
lot like a certain group of people to me, for they cut the cheeks
of the males with a sword, except for the fact that there are a
bunch of weasels and cowards, and maybe not quite warriors, but who knows,
so that before they received the nourishment of milk, they must learn to
endure wounds. End quote. Some of the Hunnish habits and tactics and customs
were similar to those of the wildest border tribes of the Scythians, and in
some sense might even be thought of as a racial or cultural midpoint between the
Scythians and the later Mongols of Ginghis Khan's era. Evidence seems to indicate that
they were the descendants of the zhong Yu, a hybrid Eurasian piece people who
show mixed European and Asiatic admixture. At least as far back as two thousand
years ago, Germanic sources would often speak of the Huns in a manner that
be deemed extremely racist today. Yet they always respected courage and military prowess,
and still more so, effective leadership. Attila appears on the scene like a
rampaging lion and lives his entire life in this manner, like a ball of
immense yet unchained and unchanneled energy. The name actually has a German root meaning
little father, and Attila himself was almost certainly of mixed Scythian and Asiatic lineage.
However, to the homogeneous Goths, the Huns and their leader would have
been a shocking and exceptional site. The historian J. Bagnellbery says his features,
according to a Gothic history quote, bore the stamp of his origin,
and the portrait of Attila exhibited the genuine deformity of a modern helmuk. A
large head, a swarthy complexion, small deep seated eyes, a flat nose,
few hairs in the place of a beard, now just put his hands
together and make them rub, broad shoulders, and a short, square body
of nervous strength, though of disproportioned form. The haughty step and demeanor of
the king of the Huns expressed the consciousness of his superior station above the rest
of mankind looks like a goat, and he had the custom of fiercely rolling
his eyes, as if he wished to enjoy the tear which he inspired.
The historian Priscus recounts his experience visiting Attila's court, recounting the semi formal rituals
engaged in during a banquet and the multitude of foods offered, while Attila,
seated in the middle of his two rows of guests ate only meat. The
anecdotes in his account provide an intriguing picture of Attila and the huns and the
culture and ara quote. When evening fell, tortures were lit, and two
barbarians coming forward in front of Attilla sang songs they had composed celebrating his victories
and deeds of valor and war. And of the guests, as they looked
at the singers, some were pleased with the verses, others, reminded of
wars, were excited in their souls, while yet others, whose bodies were
feeble with age and their spirits compelled to rest, shed tears. After the
songs, a Scythian whose mind was deranged appeared and by uttering outlandish and senseless
words forced the company to laugh after him. Zirkon, the Moorish dwarf entered
and threw all except Attila into fits of unquenchable laughter. By his appearance,
his dress, his voice, and his words, which were a confused jumble
of Latin, Punic and Gothic. Attila, however, remained immovable and of
unchanging countenance. Nor by word or act did he betray anything. Approaching a
smile or merriment, accepted the entry of Ernest, his youngest son, whom
he pulled by the cheek and gazed on with a calm look of satisfaction.
He was, by all accounts, a capable leader, extremely courageous, relentlessly
energetic, and, although wild and lawless by Gothic standards, not without some
virtues and personal code of conduct. Most importantly, he represented the most significant
and powerful threat that the Romans and Goths had ever faced, not counting one
another. There's a deeply intriguing back and forth that gives us a behind the
scenes conception of just how deeply this threat was felt, and also serves to
illustrate the little known closeness and comaraderie often felt between the Roman rulership and aristocracy,
and the Gothic element likely due at least in part to the similar genetic
and cultural roots. A similarity probably sensed all the more strongly in the face
of these new foreign invaders of Ollyrian stock himself, Emperor Valentinian sent an embassy
to the Visigoths and their king Theodorid with this message, quote, bravest of
nations, it is the part of prudence for us to unite against the Lord
of the earth, who wishes to enslave the whole world, who requires no
just cause for battle, but supposes whatever he does is right. He measures
his ambition by his might, license satisfies his pride. Despising law and right,
he shows himself an enemy to nature herself. And thus he who clearly
is the common foe of each, deserves the hatred of all. Pray.
Remember what you surely can't forget, that the Huns do not overthrow nations by
means of war, where there is an equal chance, but assail them by
treachery, which is a greater cause for anxiety, to say nothing of ourselves.
Can you suffer such insolence to go unpunished, Since you are mighty in
arms, give heed to your own danger, and join hands with us in
common. Bear aid also to the empire of which you hold apart. If
you would learn how such an alliance should be sought and welcomed by us,
look into the plans of the foe. By these and like arguments, the
ambassadors of Valentinian prevailed upon King Theodord. He answered them, saying, Romans,
you have attained your desires. You have made Attila r foe. Also
we will pursue him wherever he summons us. And though he is puffed up
by his victories over diverse races, yet the Goths know how to fight this
haughty foe. I call no war dangerous, save one whose cause is weak,
for he fears no ill on whom Majesty has smiled. The nobles shouted
assent to the reply, and the multitude gladly followed. The Romans knew full
well how lucky they were to have not only an ally as a buffer between
themselves and the Huns, but an ally who seemed to glory in such conflict,
especially when united against an outside force. As the massive host of united
Goths under Theodorin took to the field, it said Attila saw his army thrown
into confusion and doubt. He sought to encourage them to steal their nerves,
And we have a record of his words that day. Quote, here you
stand, after conquering mighty nations and subduing the world. I therefore think it
foolish of me to goad you with words, as though you were men who
had not been proved in action. Let a new leader or an untried army
resort to that. It is not right for me to say anything common,
nor ought you to listen. For what is war? What your usual custom?
Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his
own hand. It is the right of nature to gird the soul with vengeance.
Let us then attack the foe eagerly, for they are ever the buller
who make the attack despise. This union of discordant races to defend oneself by
alliance is proof of cowardice. See even before our attack they are spitten with
terror. They seek the heights, they seek the hills, and repenting too
late clamor for protection against battle in open fields. You know how slight a
matter the Roman attack is. While they are still gathering in order and forming
in one line with locked shields. They are checked. I will not say
by the first wound, but even by the dust of battle. Then onto
the fray with stout hearts, as is your wont despise their battle line.
Attack the Alani, smite the Visigoths. Seek swift victory on that spot where
the battle rages. For when the sinews are cut, the limbs soon relax.
Nor can a body stand when you have taken away the bones. Let
your courage rise and your own fury burst forth. Now show your cunning Huns,
now your deeds of arms. Let the wounded exact in return of death
his foe. Let the unwounded revel in the slaughter of the enemy. No
spear shall harm those who are sure to live and those who are sure to
die. Fate overtakes even in peace. And finally, why should fortune have
made the Huns victorious over so many nations, unless it were to prepare them
for the joy of this conflict? Who was it revealed to our sires to
path through the Maotian swamp or so many ages a closed secret? Who moreover
made men yield to you when you were as yet unarmed, Even a mass
of federated nations could not endure the sight of the Huns. I am not
deceived in the issue. Here is the field, so many victories have promised
us. I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any constand
and rest well, Attila fights, he is a dead man. Inflamed by
these words, they all dashed into battle. And although the situation was itself
fearful, yet the presence of their king dispelled anxiety and hesitation. Hand to
hand they clashed in back, and the fight grew fierce, confused, monstrous,
unrelenting, a fight who's like no ancient time has ever recorded. There
such deeds were done that a brave man who missed this marvelous spectacle could not
hope to see anything so wonderful all his life long. For, if we
may believe our elders, a brook flowing between the low banks through the plane
was greatly increased by the blood from the wounds of the slain. It was
not flooded by showers, as brooks usually rise, but was swollen by a
strange stream, and turned into this torrent by the increase of blood. In
their wretched plight, those whose wounds drove them to slake their parching thirst,
drank water, mingled with gore the blood they'd poured from their own wounds.
All right, for those of you out there in Rumble, they're playing games
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guy who is the livestream content creator see or interact with the people in his
live chat. That's pretty jacked up. They just shut it right down on
me at dawn on the following day when the Romans saw, maybe shut down
for you as well. But it's because it's you know, screw the screw
the communication, and screw making a community right A fields propiled high with bodies,
and that the Huns did not venture forth. They thought the victory was
theirs, but they knew that Attila would not flee from the battle unless overwhelmed
by a great disaster. Yet he did nothing cowardly like one that has overcome.
But with a clash of arms sounded, the trumpets threatened an attack.
He was like a lion pierced by hunting spears, who paces to and fro
before the mouth of his den and dares not spring, but ceases not to
terrify the neighborhood by his roaring. Even so, this warlike king at Bay
terrified his conquerors. Therefore, the Goths and Romans assembled and considered what to
do with the vanquished Attila. They determined to wear him out by a siege,
because he had no supply of provisions and was hindered from approaching by a
shower of arrows from the bowmen placed within the confines of the Roman camp.
But it was said that the king remained supremely brave even in this extremity,
and had heaped up a funeral pyre of horse saddles, so that if the
enemy should attack him, he was determined to cast himself into the flames,
that none might have the joy of wounding him, and that the lord of
so many races might not fall into the hands of his foes. Jordanis follows
this up with the story of the battlefield Bare and mourning of the dead Gothic
king Theodorid, in his unique writing style I find so appealing. Theodorid's son
Thoris Mud now took control, and despite the total Gothic victory, was eager
to avenge his father's death. Attila was probably surprised when no follow up attack
occurred, but this wasn't to manifest later, having gathered his wits and his
forces once more, Attila quote sought to blot out the fame of his destroyer,
and in this way to annul what he had suffered the hands of the
Visigoths. He met a second defeat and retreated gloriously end quote. The United
Goths couldn't be stopped, and the Huns would never again seriously threaten Europe.
Attila was to die true to form. After a night of drunken debauchery.
Thoris Mud was betrayed under mysterious circumstances. He'd fallen ill and was being tended
to when someone gave word to his foes that he was both ill and disarmed.
He was killed, but this fascinating line proves he didn't go down easily,
despite having one arm fastened to the chair for treatment. Quote, grasping
a footstool in the one hand he had free, He became the avenger of
his own blood by slaying several of those that were lying in wait for him
end quote. This repulse of the Huns was one of the most important events
in European history. Thomas Hodgkin, author of the excellent work Theodoric, the
goth the Barbarian champion of civilization, puts it perhaps too bluntly for the modern
year quote for the world, yes, even for us in the nineteenth century,
and for the great undiscovered continents beyond the sea. The repulse of the
squalid and unprogressive Terranian from the seats of the old historic civilization was essential to
the preservation of whatever makes human life worth living. Had Attila conquered on the
Catalonian Plains, an endless succession of Ginghis Khans and tamerl Lanes would probably have
swept over the desolated plains of Europe. Paris and Florence would have been even
as Kiva and Bokhara, and the island of Britain would not yet have attained
the degree of civilization reached by the Peninsula of Korea. End quote. Although
it's important to mention here a hallmark feature of the Huns is that they weren't
any one thing, but rather a hodgepodge of peoples, even picking up Gothic
elements along the way those earliest tribes they conquered prior to Gothic unity and forcing
them into military you mean they were a mixed multitude sirs. We also have
this from Procopius's History of the Wars, written in the mid sixth century.
The Heptolites quote are the stock of the Huns in fact as well as in
name. However, they do not mingle with any of the Huns known to
us. They are the only ones among the Huns who have white bodies end
quote. So this was not merely a hybrid people, but also so a
heterogeneous mixture of homogeneous peoples. After Attila's death, several of his sons,
mere shadows of their father, had best jockeyed for power, pretending to continue
their rule over the lands and peoples, including Goths, as if an inheritance
of fiefdoms. The Goths weren't having this and made quick work of the Huns,
now ironically in the same fractured and disunited position that the Goths had been
in when the Huns first burst on the scene. As Jordanis so eloquently puts
it, they drove them so ingloriously from their own land that those who remained
have been in dread of the arms of the Goths from that time down to
the present day. Now that the Huns were definitively dealt with, and the
Goths had been gifted some newfound unity and the process of carrying out the task.
Slowly but surely, they would go on to become the undisputed masters of
all of Europe, and not just Europe, but significant regions of North Africa
and eventually Russia as well as the Rus from which it derives its name.
This small family of peoples at one point subjugated and provided the ruling caste,
if you will, for virtually all of the Western world, France as the
Franks, Spain as the Visigoths, Italy and North Africa as the Lombards and
Vandals, Britain as the Anglo Saxons, and of course Germany and Austria,
Scandinavia, Poland and Ukraine. It's a well known but little talked about fact
that all of European royalty spread from the seed line of these Germanic peoples.
And yet, as was always the case with this group, there was no
singular, unified empire to speak of, but rather a variety of friendly yet
independent branches. Rome itself had become a chaos with regards to its titular rulership
due to the restriction that Roman emperors be citizens born within her born orders.
The Goths instead ruled as patricians, and the title of emperor became that of
a figurehead. Hopkins tells us of the nine emperors who wore the purple in
Italy after the death of Valentinian, who wore the purple. That's interesting too,
it's a color of royalty. But does that hearken back to those who
used the dye? I mean, is there something to do with magic there
and the drug rituals. I don't know. I don't know what these people.
I think that's just priplely became. I don't know, I don't know.
I'll have to look into that. We will have to look into that.
Only two ended their reigns in the course of nature, four were deposed,
and three met their deaths by violence. Only one reign for more than
five years. Several could only measure the duration of their royalty by months.
Even the short period from four fifty five to four seventy six a d which
these nine reigns occupy is not entirely filled by them, for there were frequent
into Regna, one lasting for a year and eight months, and the men
were as feeble, as their kingly life was short and precarious, with a
single exception of Majorium four fifty seven to four sixty one, a brave and
strong man, and one who, if fair play had been given him,
would have assuredly done something to stay the ruin of the Empire. All of
these nine men, with whose names there is no need to burden the reader's
memory, are fitly named by a German historian, the Shadow Emperors. Four
seventy six is traditionally known as the date Rome fell, although as I've just
described, this is quite the misnomer, and from this point forward the battles
were largely between Goths inside the Empire verse Goths outside the Empire. It was
in this year that Gothic mercenaries, which included the famed Herolai, formerly demanded
one third of the lands of Italy for themselves. Being refused by the Roman
arrestes, a man named Udovacar said to the mercenaries, make me king and
I will obtain for you your desire. They did so, and with a
Gothic portion of Roman military forces joining his side. The campaign was, to
quote Hodgkins, of the shortest and most perfunctory kind as Arrestes and his bands
of Romans were destroyed. It said aptly that during this period, while men
like Odovacar weren't formally kings of Italy, they were certainly kings in Italy.
One extremely intriguing figure, who by all accounts was also a great, just
and magnanimous ruler, was to unite Gothic realms under a single Roman banner,
the Otteroric born four fifty five a d and attaining power first over the Ostrogoths
in four seventy one, then the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy in four ninety three,
and then the Visigoth in five eleven as patrician of the Roman Empire of
direct Amali lineage, by many accounts, the most prestigious ancestral line of the
Goths. He fittingly seems to represent the heart and soul of his people,
perhaps more than any other historical figure. Like so many Germanic children of noble
lineage, he was taken hostage. Again. This term is used in the
most friendly sense to constantinople in the Eastern Roman Empire to be educated by the
best teachers and generals. By all accounts, he was much loved and respected
by all the Emperor Leo, the first among them. As he reached adulthood,
he quote heard that his tribe dwelling, as we have said in a
lyricum, was not altogether satisfied or content. So he chose rather to seek
a living by his own exertions, after the manner customary to his race,
rather than enjoy the advantages of the Roman empire and luxurious ease while his tribe
lived apart end quote. Essentially, he sought to rejoin his kinsmen and conquer
Western Rome and its half goth and at least half treacherous Odovocar, also called
Odoayser. Quote. After pondering these matters, he said to the Emperor,
though I lack nothing in serving your empire, Yet if your piety deem it
worthy, be pleased to hear the desire of my heart. And when,
as usual he had been granted permission to speak freely, he said, the
western country long ago governed by the rule of your ancestors and predecessors, and
that city which was the head and mistress of the world, wherefore is it
now shaken by the tyranny of the Torsilingi and RUGI send me there with my
race. Thus, if you but say the word, you may be freed
from the burden of expense here. And if by the Lord's help I shall
conquer, the fame of your piety shall be glorious there For it is better
that I, your servant, and your son should rule that kingdom, receiving
it as a gift from you. If I conquer, than that one whom
you do not recognize, should oppress your Senate with his tyrannical yoke, and
a part of the republic with slavery. For if I prevail, I shall
retain it as your grant and gift. If I am conquered, your piety
will lose nothing, Nay, as I have said, it will save the
expense I now entail. Although the Emperor was grieved that he should go,
yet when he heard this, he granted what Theodoric asked, for he was
unwilling to cause him sorrow. He sent him forth, enriched by great gifts,
and commended to his charge the Senate and the Roman people. Therefore,
Theodoric departed from the royal city and returned to his own people. It looks
like the artist made the composite of one head and just added it to every
single body, and gave one dude belongare the same face company with the whole
tribe of the Goths, who gave him their unanimous consent. He set out
for Hysperia end quote, and immediately he set about restoring order across all Germanic
lands and peoples to masterful effect. Moated and arranged marriages to those with the
greatest amount of a mauling royal lineage, and united them under a single banner,
as he made war with all in his path. In four eighty eight,
in that oldest of the Indo European traditions, he led a wagon train
mass migration of his Gothic people towards a new future. It will have been
noticed that the Gothic army is not an army, but a nation, and
that the campaign is also a migration. The mother and sister of Theodoric are
accompanying him. There is evidently a long train of non combatants, old men,
women and children following the army in those two thousand Gothic wagons. The
character attributed to them by Horace, as he states the wagon holds the Scythian's
wandering home still survives. The goth a terrible enemy to those outside the pale
of his kinship is a home lover at heart, and even in war,
will not separate himself from his wife and children. This makes his impact slow,
his campaigns unscientific. It prepares for him frequent defeats, such as that
of the Candavian Mountains, which a celibate army would have avoided, but it
makes his conquests when he does conquer, more enduring, while it explains those
perpetual demands for land for a settlement within the empire, almost on any terms,
with which, as was before shown, the barbarian inroads so often close
end quote, end quote. The difficulty for finding food for so great a
multitude and the often desolated plains of Pannonia and Noricumbe must have been enormous,
and was no doubt the reason for the slowness of the Oottoric's progress. Very
probably, he divided his army into several portions, moving on parallel lines.
Foragers would scour the country far and wide. Stores of provisions would be accumulated
in the great Gothic wagons, which would be laboriously driven over the rough mountain
passes. Then all the divisions of the army which had scattered in search of
food, would have to concentrate again when they came into the neighborhood of an
enemy, whether a Dovocar or one of the barbarian kings who sought to bar
their progress. All these operations consumed much time, and hence it was that
though the Goths started their pilgrimage in four eighty eight, probably in the autumn
of that year, they did not descend into the plains of Italy, even
at its extreme northeastern corner, till July for eighty nine. Amazingly along their
way, as they formally requested permission to pass the territory of the Gepidi,
their leader Troutilla, sent back an insulting reply, demanding that they fight if
they wished to pass. But the Astrogoths could not now retreat. Famine and
pestilence lay behind them on their road. They must go forward, and with
a reluctant heart, the ottter It gave the signal from battle. It seemed
at first as if the battle would be lost, and if the name and
fame of the Ostrogothic people would be swallowed up in the morasses of the ride
Ayoka. Already the van of the army, floundering in the soft mud,
and with only their wicker shields to oppose the deadly shower of Gepid arrows,
were like to fall back in confusion. Then Theodoric, having called for a
cup of wine and drunk to the fortunes of his people, and a few
spirited words, called his soldiers to follow his standard, the standard of a
king who would carved the weight to victory. Perchance he may have discerned some
part of the plain where the road went over solid ground, and if that
were beset by foes, at any rate, the Gepid was less terrible than
the morass. So it was that he charged triumphantly through the hostile ranks,
and, being followed by his eager warriors, achieved a signal victory. The
Gepidie were soon wandering over the plane a broken and dispirited force. Multitudes of
them were slain before the descent of the night, save the remaining fugitives,
and so large a number of the Gepid store wagons fell into the hands of
the Ostrogoths that throughout the host one voice of rejoicing arose that Troustilla had been
willing to fight, so had a little Gothic blood bought food more than they
could ever have afforded money to purchase. Thus, through foes and famine,
hardships of the winter and hardships of the summer, the nation army held on
its way and at length. As has been already said, in the month
of August forty nine, the last of the wagons descended from the highlands,
which are an outpost of the Julian Alps, and the Ostrogoscorn encamped on the
plains of Italy, Odovacar, who apparently had allowed them to accomplish the passage
of the Alps unmolested, stood ready to meet them on the banks of the
Isanzo, and so Theodoric's army met the Western Roman army of Adovocar at Verona.
It said he displayed an easy confidence, and as female relatives helped fasten
his well built, yet overly ornate armour, he equipped that while he'd hoped
his conduct on the battlefield would prove to all who he was, but if
that failed, the armour would certainly do the trick. Former would be the
case, as both sides recount his heroism, rallying his men to handily win
the day after a serious struggle, a Dovacar fled to Ravenna, and Theodoric
pitched his camp nearby. As a Doovacar fell and Verona, groups of his
men deserted to Theodoric. Among these was a certain individual named Tufa, whom
Theodoric, short on generals, appointed to a leading rule. He would pay
dearly for this mistake, as Tufa subsequently gave up his entire army to a
Dovacar and the next engagement. Some of the men in his army were among
the elite, the battle tested, chief members of Theodoric's inner circle who had
been with him through all the trials from the start. Hodgkins tells us quote
these men were all basely murdered by a Dovacar, a deed which Theodoric inwardly
determined should never be forgiven end quote, a promise there would certainly holde true.
A Dovacar began sending raiding parties out to harass his men regularly, and
although the defeat looked inevitable, a Dovacar chose to fight on for three long
years. Finally, with many of his men fleeing to Theodoric and famine taking
its toll, a Dovacar could hold out no longer. Terms were agreed to,
but Theodoric wasn't done yet. After three years of constant raids and unnecessary
death, he had a score to settle at a feast at which some say
Adovacar had plotted to have his men kill Theodoric. After making a toast,
it said, Theodoric then drew his sword and struck a Dovacard in the collarbone,
clefting him nearly in two. Astonished at the power of his own blow,
it said, he remarked, the poor wretch must have had no bones.
Hodgkins gives us an additional account quote, Theodoric raised his sword to strike.
Where is God? Cried the defenseless but unterrified victim. Thus didst thou
to my friends? Answered Theodoric, reminding him of the treacherous murder of his
close friends given up by Tufa. With a tremendous stroke of his broadsword,
he clove his rival from the shoulder to the loin. The Barbarian frenzy,
which the Scandinavian minstrels called the theory of the Berserk, was in his heart,
and with a savage laugh at his own too impetuous blow, He shouted,
as the corpse fell to the ground. I think the weakling never had
a bone in his body. End quote. He then chose to bury him
outside the city, and a piece of ground next to a Jewish synagogue,
according to the historian Bradley quote deemed to be polluted by Infidel worship. End
quote. Now that a Dovacar had been dealt with and Rome was essentially united
with Theodoric at its helm as the most powerful figure of his day, his
subjects must have wondered what the next chapter might bring, especially after witnessing his
harsh initial actions and cleaning house of all those who had supported a Dovacar,
Any fears, whether Roman or Gothic, would soon be put to rest.
Quote. Once more, we have to lament the truth of Milton's saying that
victories of peace are less renowned than those of war. Far more interesting,
if only it could be told than the records of all the battles which Theodoric
ever won, would be the story of the peaceful achievements which followed, by
which means the Gothic usurper succeeded in giving order and prosperity to the land so
long the prey of lawlessness and oppression. By what arts he so won the
hearts of his subjects, both Romans and Goths, that when he died he
was mourned as no ruler had been for centuries past. Are questions which history
gives us very imperfect answers. We do know he immediately re established the grain
dol to the citizenry which the greed of previous rulers had stripped, immediately alleviating
the threat of starvation for large swaths of the population. He wasn't the type
of man eager to play despot or tyrant, in fact, far from it,
and he remains one of the clearest illustrations of just how much the Gothic
people and culture were, contrary to their framing in our Age, very much
a net positive influence on Rome, and in fact seemed to salvage her in
many senses, from descending into chaos. Henry Bradley summarizes it thusly. Quote
Theotoric's great anxiety, however, was to restore to Italy its long lost material
prosperity and plenty. Of course, when the country was firmly and justly ruled,
and the people had protection against violence and fraud. There was very soon
a revival of agriculture and trade. Theotoric was eager to help on this revival
by active means. He encouraged the opening of iron mines and Dalmatia and gold
mines in the south of Italy. He assisted in the development of shipbuilding and
fishing industries. He promoted the draining of the marshes at Terracina and Spoletto.
He granted the reclaimed land free from taxes to those who had borne the cost
of the undertaking. He spent large sums yearly in the repair of the highways,
and in the restoration of the old aqueducts and the building of new ones.
The extortions of the custom house officers, which in the days of the
Empire, as Cassiodorus says, foreign merchants had dreaded more than shipwreck, were
now firmly put down, and the import duties were assessed by a committee,
among whose members were the bishop and several influential citizens of the seaport town.
A uniform standard of weights and measures was introduced. The coinage, which had
been debased, was restored to its proper value, and the issuing of false
money was severely punished end quote. To root out the immense financial corruption he
found himself facing, he engaged in the emergency measure of temporary price fixing,
and quote inflicted severe punishment on all tradesmen who ventured to charge higher rates.
The exporting of corn from Italy was forbidden under heavy penalties. And if a
corn merchant was found quote speculating for a rise, as it is called,
that is to say, buying up a large quantity of grain when it was
cheap in order to sell it at a great profit when it became dearer,
the king compelled him to sell out his stock immediately at cost price. Theodoric
strove to promote the welfare of his subjects, especially the poorer part of them,
and on the whole his philanthropic policy was wonderfully successful. In after times,
people looked back to the reign of Theodoric as to a period of almost
fabulous plenty and prosperity. Thomas Hodgkins states, quote, the miserable historians of
the time tell us far too little about the thirty years of peace which Italy
enjoyed under the wise rule of Theodoric. Still we are told enough to enable
us, in some degree to understand both what he accomplished and how he accomplished
it. And one thing that makes us accept the statements of these historians with
unquestioning belief is that they have no motive for the praises which they so freely
bestow on the Great Ostrakath. They are not his countrymen, nor his fellow
religionists. Our chief authorities are Roman and Orthodox, and bitterly condemn Theodoric for
his persecution of the Catholics, into which, as we shall see, he
was provoked in the last two years of his reign. Still over the grave
of this dead barbarian and heretic, when they have nothing to gain by speaking
well of him, they cannot forbear to praise the noble impartiality and anxious care
for the welfare of his people, which, for the space of one whole
generation gave happiness to Italy. Theotoric even crafted a succinct law code of his
own. No offenses, we can well believe, were so hateful to the
Gothic King's justice loving soul as the taking of bribes by judges and the bringing
of false accusations of crime. The first of these under Roman law had been
punished by transportation to an island and confiscation of property. The Ottoric, who
significantly makes it the subject of the very first paragraph of his edict, decreed
that the penalty should be death. Hodgkins goes on to list many of the
heartful we wouldn't have a single politician or judge of left built accounts of the
chief authorities of the day thinking glowingly about Theodoric's just rule in his excellent work
Theodoric the goth which I've again linked in the video description below and highly recommend.
The Gothic people had now gained a settled homeland, yet had to sacrifice
some of their ancient freedoms in so doing. As Theotoric attempted to strike the
best balance between Roman and Gothic laws and customs, the Gothic people never sought
to blend in with the Romans, and in fact laws were passed against intermarriage
to the extented. Some historians speak of an apartheid like system aimed at quote,
preserving their integrity and cultural authenticity. However, it was at this stage
that the Germans lost their ancient custom of periodic assembly meetings to make laws or
decide on the policy of the state. Considering the military's enti Gothic, and
they maintained the custom of carrying arms. They could have rebelled easily at any
moment, but it seems both goth and Roman respected Theotdoric far too much for
this to be a significant threat. It said that the Roman clergy disliked the
Goths, yet even they couldn't help but admit the Goths obeyed the precepts of
their religion better than their own countrymen, and overall relations between the two peoples
went smoothly. Theodoric did not, as has sometimes been thought, endeavor to
unite the Goths and Romans into one nation. Perhaps he may have hoped that
such a union would at sometimes be realized under his successors, but in his
own day he was content that the two peoples should live together in mutual friendship
and respect, each of them being charged with its own special function in the
commonwealth. The Goths were to undertake the defense of the country from attack,
the maintenance of order, and the execution of the law. The Romans were
to labor for the development of art and science, while in the cultivation of
the soil. Both nations were to take part. So long as Theodoric lived,
this ideal seems to have been in a great degree realized. It is
no wonder that Theodoric became the subject of many fabulous stories, and the tradition
represented his reign as being almost a kingdom of heaven upon earth. Even before
the sixth century closed, men told in Italy nearly the same story that was
told in England, respecting the days of Alfred, how the great King had
so made righteousness to prevail in his realm that gold pieces could be left exposed
on the highway for a year and a day without being stolen. They say
the same thing about Vladi Impala, which is very interesting. A golden goblet
was by a fountain as a test, and no one touched it. Many
of his sayings were quoted as proverbs in the land, and anecdotes were related
to show how, like Solomon in the matter of the two mothers and their
infants, Theodoric had displayed in the Judgment seat his wonderful insight into human nature.
But it was not in Italy or amongst the Goths that his legendary fame
reached its highest point. The whole Teutonic race regarded his glory as their own,
and his imagine deeds were the theme of popular songs in all the German
lands. A lover of peace and justice, he never takes the sword,
save unwillingly and at the call of duty. But when he has once prevailed
upon to fight, there is none more fearless and more terrible than he.
The reign of Theodoric is perhaps the finest example in all of history of what
is called a beneficent despotism. No freer system of government could, under the
circumstances, have produced such wonderful results. Perhaps with a freer system, Theodoric
could not have established or maintained his kingdom at all. And that's the thing
that people have to understand. When you have malignant forces, you have people
who are clamoring for power within the system, they're not united as one cultural's
same minded force. Then you have to sometimes take a little bit more of
an aggressive approach so that you can maintain the justice for your people. Laura
in that that is in that territory, and you know, keep at bay
those who would try to take it. But the efficiency of the government.
Just wait until we get into the next part with Theodoric tomorrow Theotoric is going
to blow your mind as far I'm sorry, not theatic Totila totilla is gonna
employ your mind. It's gonna be more of this noble this noble spirit,
and it's gonna be something to admire. For sure, government depended wholly on
the wisdom and energy of one man, and it might easily have been foreseen
that grave troubles would arise when the scepter passed into weaker hands end quote.
As Bradley states, quote, the more Italy prospered under Theodoric's wise and kindly
rule, the more she became a tempting prize to the ambition of foreign kings
end quote. And it should be recognized that then, just as well as
today, foreign powers often use money and the treachery it can so often purchase.
And let me just u's an example too. I mean, you schemers,
the people who weasel their way into power, and I think you know
who I'm talking about, the ones that gains control of the monetary system.
When you have or like when you're talking about Berlin and the depravity, the
decadence, when when you see something like that and when that's happening, and
when you know they have power, and they have, you know, the
ability to manipulate and influence a great deal of powerful people. What do you
do you give everybody? Because they're going to They're going to abuse a system
of freedom and liberty. And that's what happened to us, right It was
a perfect cultivated ground, perfect atmosphere for them to manipulate and abuse a system
of freedom to get to where we are right now, and we're about to
fall like Rome. It's their foremost tool. And this concept fittingly sets this
age for the third and final part of our three videos on the Goths and
Germans, in which we'll discuss the Jews and the Saracens, court intrigue and
mysterious deaths, Justinian and Theodora, and the treacherous end of Gothic supremacy.
Until then, and until then we'll be tomorrow, all right. So,
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actually grab that one. Oh let's see. I'm not sure if there's a
big difference either Though'll be honest, I wouldn't know until had them both the
side by side. So there's the bullbusters. Give a seen, go let
me go ahead, throw up to go fund me just to show you guys,
it's a good read. And it's this one right here. All right.
This was set up initially after my grandfather passed to get us to to
get us to you know where to get and thank you, Corag, Thank
you. I appreciate that you just did that today. Thank you so much
to get us to New York so that we could visit family and pair respects
and stuff like that. So now it's finally happening. And you know,
obviously I still have responsibilities here, so any any bit helps, It's greatly
appreciated, and my daughter and I will have less stress and anxiety on us
as we go see the family and unfortunately have to do well. I'm gonna
want to see my grandfather's resting place. But if you read this, I
think you'll get something out of it. There it is right there. And
then there was a the dis update right here. All right, all right,
I don't want to you want to look at it because it bothers me.
It makes me, it makes me go through it all over again,
and I don't wanna not right now. Got a long day. And then,
like I said, if you're in the tell, if you're in the
Patreon group, I just dropped those resources in here. So there's Tacticus Germania,
there's geteck of the History of the Germanic People by Jordanis. There's other
books in here. I put already put the Oor Linda book in here.
Let me see the let's see where is it? Uh yeah, that one
doesn't matter. That one is the same thing that's up here, so it
just for some reason lost contact with it. But here is Bill Cooper is
a mystery Babylon series transcribed. There's Behold a Pale Horse. There's Transumor the
history of Dangerous Idea that had read from a bunch of times, and there's
the Overland the book all right, and then I'll be adding more stuff for
this as we go. So there's lots of different perks inside the patreo,
inside the Patreon for people who support the show. We get that, you
get there's gonna be exclusive live stream weekly. Hopefully we'll get more people into
the Patreon so that you know, you know, the effort being put in
there will reach more people, you know what I mean, because I think
a lot of times we go, we cover a lot of information that's really
important. So the more the merrier, right that way, more people are
aware of it. So hopefully that'll happen. There's fourteen pay thirty two total
people in there already, so come on in enjoy it, you get the
Niche at the second tier. So Niche and Dan Tomorrow is going to be
when we record, So it'll be up tomorrow on the disguise the limits Patreon.
Okay, okay, keep saying okay, like a weirdo's it. I
think. I think sure likes subscribe all that crap that people say. Try
to get into the FTJ media and make yourself a log and it's really super
simple, and check out the links for the goodies that you can acquire,
including books, createen hot So I saw that good stuff in the description.
Now all that helps out, I may stay and do this for you,
and I will be taking my laptop with me. How many shows I'll be
able to crank out while I'm gone while I'm visiting family will be to be
determined. I might actually end up happening earlier in the daytime because there are
three hours, right, so if I try to keep it at eight am
there it would be like, yeah, it's like five am Pacific, But
it's whatever if I can get. If I can get it done, then
that way I'm not in the middle of the day where where you know family
is doing stuff because they haven't seen this in forever, so we can't spend
too much time doing things that are family related, like I still here's a
funny here's a funny story bout my mom. Right forever, she has had
tons and tons of not exactly cheap, not exactly the top line exercise equipment.
Right, it's like QBC style, like impulse buying, like all the
time, there's always a box at the door, right, all growing up,
So she has all these exercise comings. I'm thinking to myself, all
good, so I'll be able. I won't have to break that, you
know, routine. And I get there. So I was like, Mom,
you got something at the house and she's like no. So when I
wasn't able to walk very well for like a year before I had the hit
replacement, which I told I tried to get the doctor Glynton stuff to her,
but she's anyway, I got rid of it all, I'm like,
I think of myself, well, you didn't use it before either, so
why did what was the what was the what was the driving motivation to get
rid of it? It's like I wasn't using it then, I'm not using
it now in the same same situation. Oh man. But yeah, so
that's the longer there, so I don't know, I might have to rent
a vehicle so I can go in a twenty four hour and do another off
hours when the family isn't you know, the family demands aren't there. When
farre is already sleep and grandma's watching, maybe I can go out and hit
the elliptical at some gym or something like that. It gre's crossed, but
it's just such a small town. Like I had a graduating I'm sure it's
bigger now, but I had a graduating class. I think of sixty eight
people that are very smart, so maybe there was like a eighty, but
everybody made it, you know what type of thing. But uh yeah,
very small school. Yeah, in the Hudson kind of soda and I lived
on in the Hudson when we had a restaurant. So it's a it's like
a small rural area close to Saratoga Lake, close to Saratoga Racetrack, which
is also the Saratoga Battlefield. Is actually closer to us than the lake,
I think probably, But yeah, that's that's kind of desolate. So there
isn't like a Walmart for unless you drive twenty five to thirty minutes. That
means you're you're town small right. If you don't trip and fall into a
Walmart and bang your head on the Starbucks, then it's probably a small town,
right, all right, talk to you see tomorrow.