Friday, August 17, 2007

Danes Sorry for Looting and Pillaging

The Danes are sorry for looting and pillaging the Irish back when they were known as Vikings. This article by the Sydney Morning Herald says:
MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," Mr Mikkelson declared in his welcoming speech delivered by the River Liffey.
Nice. The Anglo-Saxon St. Willibrord followed by the Frankish St. Ansgar (Ansgarius) arrived in Denmark in 725 A.D. and began the slow process of Christianizing my warlike Norman ancestors. I for one am very thankful that my ancestors, those that arrived with King Rollo and later led by William the Conqueror, were converted to Christianity. Now on my mother's side my family is still awaiting an apology from the government of Saudi Arabia for invading, colonizing, and enslaving my Visigothic ancestors for 700+ years in the Iberian peninsula. Thank goodness, through the intercession of Santiago, that the Catholic monarchs and the Reconquista were able to free my mother's family from the bondage of Islam. ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

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