The new face of the past

[adderslj]

A nice. nice piece of satire from Mr Neil Gaiman on the way British history books are being subtly rewritten to promote the idea of European unity can be found here. Prepare yourself for warm, caring, agricultural Vikings.

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[maliszew.livejournal.com]

When I was a grad student in the early 90s, there was a movement afoot to rename then "barbarian invasions" the "Volkerwanderungen," which is German for "the wanderings of the peoples," the gist being that what we typically call invasions were simply migrations of Central Asian tribes into Europe.

The term never took root in North America.