Charlemagne

outta the dark ages

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[frantic1971]

I absolutely loved this documentary (it's called "Testament", btw) and John Romer is a fascinating and engaging host. I have searched all over for tapes or dvds of this great series by Antelope Films. Does anyone know where it is available?

[redwine65]

I got testament about 10 years ago from,, films for humanities..

but they no longer carry it...there is a serch engine called "worldcat" that libraries use alot, you can then have it shipped to your local library, and the great thing is it doesn't cost much....thats about the only way I've seen to get it on tape

[quillendaniel]

Very pro -religion ; not much substance....... seems like a relgious agenda at work here......

[redwine65]

he's an atheist, lol

[RealSarmatians]

@TemplarX2

I do not agree. I don't know if you know that there is a region (a whole swath of country) in Germany (and I don't mean East Franconia in Bavaria) that still speaks a dialect that is a direct descendant of the old Frankish Germanic language. It is called Rheinfranken (Rhine Franconia) and consists of Hessen, Rheinhessen, Pfalz, Kurpfalz, and parts of Saarland&Rhineland. Famous Lorsch, Trebur, Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Frankfurt, Seligenstadt is there. The Dialect is called Rheinfränkisch

[HongKongKanto]

@TemplarX2

franks are germans who spoke german

[MattakuNoKoohai]

damn frenchman

[rabatgirl]

I think this is a good video. Whatever Charlemagne motives were , it doesn't matter. What matters is that he helped save the western world in promoting education and the reading of the Bible. Unlike Islam which promotes returning to the dark ages, and forbids people to think for themselves..

[Propylnitrite]

"THRONE OF EUROPE" what absolute nonsense! Charlemagne was the bastard son of a userper and was himself an illiterate Franco Germanic thug and a mass genocidal murderer - he had 40,000 Saxons killed because they wouldn't convert to the Roman Catholic cult of Christianity!

[Anubis2445]

thumbs up if you are a decendant of this guy

[FireyOwnzJ00]

IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT YOU COULD SAY LIFTED EUROPE OUT OF THE DARK AGES...

IT IS THIS CHAIR.

[Drbolla345]

Happy Birthday Charlemagne, April 2nd 742.

[sunburnmuse]

And why its the next one joke? Charles Martel was German?

[sunburnmuse]

Beside the history lessons its interresting to see in Youtube a lot germans trying to rob the Frank French history...

[sunburnmuse]

@HongKongKanto ..."It could also indicate intense contacts with Belgian neighbours like the Menapi, and different from other Germanic tribes. In Frankish times, these Belgicisms are attested as the main difference by which to distinguish Frankish and Old Dutch from other Germanic languages like High German."

[sunburnmuse]

@HongKongKanto Later the Sicambri mixed their tribe with the Tungri a tribe from Gaul who have absorbed survivors of the Eburones (Gallic trib) and others disbanded rebellious Gauls and then they evolve into the Salian Franks. Also according to Wiki for their language: Like the Cimbri their possible ancestor (as it is the case for their neighbours across the Rhine, the Aduatuci), many names of Sicambrian leaders end in typical Belgicized (or Celticized) suffixes like -rix(Baetorix, Deudorix,etc)