ENGLISH Charlemagne, friend of the Jews, enemy of the folk

The full horrors of Charlemagne’s system of feudalism were introduced to England by the Normans, and my account of the “Harrowing of the North” is particularly hair-raising:

See “The Horror of the Harrowing” 1/3rd down here: https://johndenugent.com/the-norman-conquest-gives-england-to-jews

The horror of the Harrowing

The deliberate annihilation by William and his Normans of all foodstocks and livestock – like Stalin’s “Holodomor” in the 1930s, a famine genocide which the Soviet dictator deliberately caused in the Ukraine to break the independent farmers – meant that anyone who survived the initial Norman massacres with the sword or lance would still die eventually of starvation over the northern European winter.

The land was even salted by the Normans – just as the Romans had done with Carthage – so as to destroy its fertility for decades forward.

As the monk Orderic relates – and again, this Orderic was otherwise a blatant admirer of William – the wretched survivors were reduced literally to the horrors of cannibalism and necrophagy. Some killed and ate their dying family members, and cracked open the skulls of the dead to devour their brains.

This is a chapter of British history of unparalleled darkness, unequaled until the Irish genocide by British Normans 1550-1850, and then the bombing by Norman-ruled Britain of the Saxon capital of Dresden in 1945, which killed at least 350,000 civilians (and horrified many good English people).

This deliberate campaign of terror or horror explains the Pope’s threat of excommunication. Unsurprisingly, among the starved, wretched survivors – with their immune systems severely weakened by hunger, physical abuse (including rape) and emotional trauma — a plague also followed, killing even more of England’s finest northern blood.

Orderic, though half-Norman himself and a supporter, like the pope, of the winner, could find no way to defend William after this unparalleled holocaust:

The King stopped at nothing to hunt his enemies. He cut down many people and destroyed their homes and land. Nowhere else had he shown such cruelty.

To his shame he made no effort to control his fury, and he punished the innocent with the guilty. He ordered that crops and herds, tools and food should be burned to ashes. More than 100,000 people perished of hunger.

I have often praised William in this book, but I can say nothing good about this brutal slaughter. God will punish him.

Interestingly, after that prediction, in his later years William’s wife died prematurely, and William’s own son

Robert Curthose rose up in revolt against him, ravaging his father’s Norman French domains.

The older William then became grossly fat, and in 1087 he was told that King Philip of France had described him as resembling a pregnant woman. Feeling insulted, a furious William then mounted an attack on the French king’s territory.

But after capturing and setting fire to the innocent city of Mantes, he was thrown high in the air by his horse, landed hard on his groin on the metal pommel of his saddle…..

Ouch… that is the pommel sticking up.

……and died after three weeks of agony from a ruptured groin. He was then friendless and absolutely, “utterly alone,” as Orderic notes.

Sadly, the four-year “Harrowing of the North” by William was just the beginning of a new, long dark age of Norman oppression, of the crushing of ancient freedoms for the English people, and soon after that for the Welsh, Scots and the Irish against whom English armies were sent.

William Wallace fights against the Normans (not against the common people of England!).

In some ways the Norman Conquest was not unlike the Bolshevik Revolution, which only involved about 50,000 bolsheviks, who took over a vast country of 150 million. The Norman Conquest, like the Bolshevik putsch, brought war, enslavement, exploitation and fear to the vast majority of the people.

And from this “harrowing” we can see that although the Normans had picked up the French language (from settling in northern France between 900 and 1066), and French certainly is the vehicle of a high culture full of wine, women, song, poetry, cuisine, beauty and elegance, the Normans themselves remained merely Viking marauders in their hearts, still being – to this very day – what the Anglo-Saxon “Battle of Maldon” poem said once of the Vikings: “pirates,” “scavengers” and “slaughter-wolves.”

All the British peoples had to learn bitterly that “if you make it, a Norman will take it” – your land, your crops, your pride, and if possible your wife’s or daughter’s virtue.

It all reminds me exactly of what, over in Eastern Asia, the psychopathic mongol Genghis Khan once said boastfully, giving his own infamous, peculiar definition of pleasure:

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to

see his cities reduced to ashes, to ride his horses, to see those who love him

shrouded in tears, and to take to your chest his wives and daughters.

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See also my shocking essay:  https://johndenugent.com/psychopaths-in-power