Comments by "Faramund" (@faramund9865) on "Fire of Learning" channel.

@noel_21 bloodthirsty isn’t the problem. Dishonor is. The Saxons agreed to meet unarmed with the Frankish. The Franks showed up armed and slaughtered them. That’s the kind of dishonor NO Germanic tribe would tolerate. And if Charlemagne hadn’t sold himself to the bankers to buy a huge amount of armies, other tribes would’ve retaliated. Actually the Norse DID retaliate. Charlemagne was a traitor to his own kin with wormtongues in his ear. And the consequences of his dishonor are still here today. And it’s truly a shame that the Norse didn’t flatten his empire to the ground.
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3:38 Actually the word use is 'rutilae', which is NOT red hair. But rather a sort of BLONDE hair: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rutilus#Latin Also you keep characterizing Germania of having 'very many peoples' and that Germania only existed in the minds of the Romans. But the truth is that they are simply different tribes with the same blood and culture (and thus also the same language). And yes indeed they didn't feel much for a huge 'Deutscher Reich' at that time. And I would like to think that they were right in feeling that way.
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Frankish, so Germanic. But not German, nor French, those are modern countries! And since the only remaining Frankish speaking people are Dutch... I'd say if we are comparing to modern nations... HE'S DUTCH! KAREL DE GROTE! By the way the only description of him we have from his contemporaries that knew him is that he's BLONDE TALL AND BLUE EYED. Could he be any more Dutch?
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He probably didn’t even speak Latin. There was no ‘outrageous’ accent. Just Frankish. All his letters were composed by monks, because they were the only ones that could write. And they wrote in Latin only.
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