Germanicus
01-26-2014, 05:47 AM
Characteristics
The 11th century Benedictine monk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Benedict) and historian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian), Goffredo Malaterra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goffredo_Malaterra), characterised the Normans thus:
Specially marked by cunning, despising their own inheritance in the hope of winning a greater, eager after both gain and dominion, given to imitation of all kinds, holding a certain mean between lavishness and greediness, that is, perhaps uniting, as they certainly did, these two seemingly opposite qualities. Their chief men were specially lavish through their desire of good report. They were, moreover, a race skillful in flattery, given to the study of eloquence, so that the very boys were orators, a race altogether unbridled unless held firmly down by the yoke of justice. They were enduring of toil, hunger, and cold whenever fortune laid it on them, given to hunting and hawking, delighting in the pleasure of horses, and of all the weapons and garb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing) of war.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGunn1975-9)
Their quick adaptability expressed itself in the shrewd Norman willingness to take on local men of talent, to marry the high-born local women; confidently illiterate Norman masters used the literate clerks of the church for their own purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans
As a modern Anglo-Norman I feel as though I have been given a false history and been made to believe that my history has something to do with Italians and Greeks. Southern Europeans are not Teuton and I do not care about the overrated feats of people like Alexander the Great or the Roman Empire.
Teutons of all kinds should celebrate our proud and superior Teuton history. We children of the snow have been short changed and our history and identity stolen from us.
I felt very proud when I realized that I was a Teuton and that my history was superior to that of the Romans and Greeks.
"We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors. We toil and struggle, and stand by the toil and struggle no matter how hopeless it may be. While we are persistent and resistant, we are so made that we fit ourselves to the most diverse conditions. Will the Indian, the Negro, or the Mongol ever conquer the Teuton? Surely not! The Indian has persistence without variability; if he does not modify he dies, if he does try to modify he dies anyway. The Negro has adaptability, but he is servile and must be led. As for the Chinese, they are permanent. All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is. All that the other races have not, the Teuton has. What race is to rise up and overwhelm us?"
We are not God's, but Nature's chosen people, we Angles, and Saxons, and Normans, and Vikings, and the earth is our heritage. Let us arise and go forth!"
http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/AdaughterOfTheSnows/chapter8.html
We are natures Chosen People. If you please.
5607
5608
I think the time is coming for Teuton pride to return and for all Teuton to embrace our true history. The Norman history is a great and proud history as are all Teutonic histories. Together our history is the greatest. We Teuton have a prouder history than any Southern European. Or North African.
What do you reckon? Are you Teuton? A child of the snow? Are you one of natures chosen people?
5609
"We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors. We toil and struggle, and stand by the toil and struggle no matter how hopeless it may be. While we are persistent and resistant, we are so made that we fit ourselves to the most diverse conditions. Will the Indian, the Negro, or the Mongol ever conquer the Teuton? Surely not! The Indian has persistence without variability; if he does not modify he dies, if he does try to modify he dies anyway. The Negro has adaptability, but he is servile and must be led. As for the Chinese, they are permanent. All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is. All that the other races have not, the Teuton has. What race is to rise up and overwhelm us?" - Jack London.
Globe-encirclers. Zone conquerors.
The 11th century Benedictine monk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Benedict) and historian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian), Goffredo Malaterra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goffredo_Malaterra), characterised the Normans thus:
Specially marked by cunning, despising their own inheritance in the hope of winning a greater, eager after both gain and dominion, given to imitation of all kinds, holding a certain mean between lavishness and greediness, that is, perhaps uniting, as they certainly did, these two seemingly opposite qualities. Their chief men were specially lavish through their desire of good report. They were, moreover, a race skillful in flattery, given to the study of eloquence, so that the very boys were orators, a race altogether unbridled unless held firmly down by the yoke of justice. They were enduring of toil, hunger, and cold whenever fortune laid it on them, given to hunting and hawking, delighting in the pleasure of horses, and of all the weapons and garb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing) of war.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGunn1975-9)
Their quick adaptability expressed itself in the shrewd Norman willingness to take on local men of talent, to marry the high-born local women; confidently illiterate Norman masters used the literate clerks of the church for their own purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans
As a modern Anglo-Norman I feel as though I have been given a false history and been made to believe that my history has something to do with Italians and Greeks. Southern Europeans are not Teuton and I do not care about the overrated feats of people like Alexander the Great or the Roman Empire.
Teutons of all kinds should celebrate our proud and superior Teuton history. We children of the snow have been short changed and our history and identity stolen from us.
I felt very proud when I realized that I was a Teuton and that my history was superior to that of the Romans and Greeks.
"We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors. We toil and struggle, and stand by the toil and struggle no matter how hopeless it may be. While we are persistent and resistant, we are so made that we fit ourselves to the most diverse conditions. Will the Indian, the Negro, or the Mongol ever conquer the Teuton? Surely not! The Indian has persistence without variability; if he does not modify he dies, if he does try to modify he dies anyway. The Negro has adaptability, but he is servile and must be led. As for the Chinese, they are permanent. All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is. All that the other races have not, the Teuton has. What race is to rise up and overwhelm us?"
We are not God's, but Nature's chosen people, we Angles, and Saxons, and Normans, and Vikings, and the earth is our heritage. Let us arise and go forth!"
http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/AdaughterOfTheSnows/chapter8.html
We are natures Chosen People. If you please.
5607
5608
I think the time is coming for Teuton pride to return and for all Teuton to embrace our true history. The Norman history is a great and proud history as are all Teutonic histories. Together our history is the greatest. We Teuton have a prouder history than any Southern European. Or North African.
What do you reckon? Are you Teuton? A child of the snow? Are you one of natures chosen people?
5609
"We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors. We toil and struggle, and stand by the toil and struggle no matter how hopeless it may be. While we are persistent and resistant, we are so made that we fit ourselves to the most diverse conditions. Will the Indian, the Negro, or the Mongol ever conquer the Teuton? Surely not! The Indian has persistence without variability; if he does not modify he dies, if he does try to modify he dies anyway. The Negro has adaptability, but he is servile and must be led. As for the Chinese, they are permanent. All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is. All that the other races have not, the Teuton has. What race is to rise up and overwhelm us?" - Jack London.
Globe-encirclers. Zone conquerors.