*Ø* Blogmanac November 13, 1002 | Ethnic cleansing, English style
1002 Ethnic cleansing: On St Brice's Day, the Anglo-Saxon people rose up and massacred their Danish overlords. This act of carnage so outraged the Vikings that it led to a full scale invasion by them the following year. John of Wallingford suggests that the Vikings had to be killed because they combed their hair daily, bathed every Saturday and regularly changed their clothes – helping to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses.
For it is fully agreed that to all dwelling in this country it will be well known that, since a decree was sent out by me with the counsel of my leading men and magnates, to the effect that all the Danes who had sprung up in this island, sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat, were to be destroyed by a most just extermination, and thus this decree was to be put into effect even as far as death, those Danes who dwelt in the afore-mentioned town, striving to escape death, entered this sanctuary of Christ, having broken by force the doors and bolts, and resolved to make refuge and defence for themselves therein against the people of the town and the suburbs; but when all the people in pursuit strove, forced by necessity, to drive them out, and could not, they set fire to the planks and burnt, as it seems, this church with its ornaments and its books. Afterwards, with God's aid, it was renewed by me.
From a royal charter
It is widely held that Hocktide games in England commemorated the Anglo-Saxon's inhumane slaughter on that cruel day. Hocktide is the Monday and Tuesday following the second Sunday after Easter.
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1002 Ethnic cleansing: On St Brice's Day, the Anglo-Saxon people rose up and massacred their Danish overlords. This act of carnage so outraged the Vikings that it led to a full scale invasion by them the following year. John of Wallingford suggests that the Vikings had to be killed because they combed their hair daily, bathed every Saturday and regularly changed their clothes – helping to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses.
For it is fully agreed that to all dwelling in this country it will be well known that, since a decree was sent out by me with the counsel of my leading men and magnates, to the effect that all the Danes who had sprung up in this island, sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat, were to be destroyed by a most just extermination, and thus this decree was to be put into effect even as far as death, those Danes who dwelt in the afore-mentioned town, striving to escape death, entered this sanctuary of Christ, having broken by force the doors and bolts, and resolved to make refuge and defence for themselves therein against the people of the town and the suburbs; but when all the people in pursuit strove, forced by necessity, to drive them out, and could not, they set fire to the planks and burnt, as it seems, this church with its ornaments and its books. Afterwards, with God's aid, it was renewed by me.
From a royal charter
It is widely held that Hocktide games in England commemorated the Anglo-Saxon's inhumane slaughter on that cruel day. Hocktide is the Monday and Tuesday following the second Sunday after Easter.
>Read the whole article at the Scriptorium
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