Jack of Harts

Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 10, 2025 at 12:01 am

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Death comes for everybody in time. Every nation. Every person. None of us will live forever, despite our greatest wishes or plans. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still seeking that whole immortality thing, but humanity is shooting at darn near 100% on missing the mark so far. And as in all things, death came for the descendents of the Saxons who conquered the former Roman province of Britannia. Or at least their ruler at the time.

And whenever there is a death of a crown, there are claimants for the crown if there is no set line of succession. Sometimes even if there IS a set line of succession. Some people will do anything not to lose out on a game of thrones after all. This is the way it was when the king of Saxon England died. Prospective crowns came out of the woodwork, as well as invaders who sought an opportunity for new wealth and new lands. The Saxons got it all, good and hard. And they fought, good and hard.

The most successful of the claimants were the Normans. They were married into basically every royal family of Europe by this time, and William the Conqueror thought his claim was solid gold. So he assembled the largest fleet ever put to sea to cross what history calls the English Channel to bring an army capable of defeating every Saxon army he met. He plopped his butt on the throne of England and decided that he liked it there. He was going to stay. And he brought all of his favorite and best Norman nobles with him to become the new ruling class of England. This was a mass migration of the nobility, and it would forever change the destiny of the British Isles.

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 9, 2025 at 12:01 am

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Vikings were the most dangerous brigands of the Old World in the centuries after the fall of Rome. They liked to think of themselves as more traders than brigands, but were not above liberating things they wanted from people who lacked the strength to stop them. They were rather unholy pagan terrors of Britannia, France, and what would become the Germanies. They even effectively conquered much of northern France and laid siege to Paris itself. In the end, the French king and one of the Viking leaders came to an agreement. His Vikings would stop their brigandly ways, swear fealty to the king of France, convert to Christianity, wed a very nice young lady of noble birth, and most importantly, stop all those other Vikings from stealing all of France’s stuff.

It was actually a pretty easy decision for all of them. Northern France was a vacation destination for Vikings who didn’t feel like freezing their balls off every winter, and the weather is barely noticeable to a North Man. But it was a storm-swept Hellscape for the French, so they were happy to give it up if it meant no more Viking raiders attacking Paris. At which point the Normans became France’s best guard dogs.

They left their pagan ways behind and signed up for that Christian God thing. They started speaking French. They learned to like cheese and croissants. They even learned how to do that little pinky thing while drinking tea. And the Normans went to town welding themselves into the highest ranks of local society. If a local ruler had a daughter or son looking for a spouse, the Normans had someone ready to sign up for that. Those Norman kids went everywhere, and treaties and alliances went with them. They are one of the reasons that European royalty are all kissing cousins now.

The North Man’s “settlement” of Normandy is one of histories most successful examples of a mass migration where the immigrants joined up with the locals rather than wiping them out. They became the rough and tumble guards of civilization, and France became the united France we think of now because of the Normans. And if you know French and English history, you know what I just did there…

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Mass Migration

by Medron Pryde on May 8, 2025 at 12:01 am

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As the Roman Empire began to fall, chaos ruled the northern edges of civilization. Barbarians waged war both each on other and on Rome, and things did not go well for many. For others, they saw a chance to create a new life for themselves. Many people from the area that would later be called Germany traveled to far off Britannia to find exactly that. It had all the hallmarks of Roman civilization from good waste disposal to well-tended farmlands.

So the people history would call Jutes, Angles, and Saxons escaped the ravages of continental life for life on an island. Now the Roman province of Britannia was home to between 2 and 4 million Britons in the year 400, and most of them did not return to Rome. Only the big rich and important Romans did that. So the Britons were left alone to face the tide of new arrivals. Some legends tell tales of a King Arthur-like figure who rallied the Britons and held back the invading Saxons for a time. But that did not last.

Between 20,000 and 200,000 Saxons moved to the island based on computer estimates. That puts the total mass migration at between less than 1% on up to a possible 10% of the local population. But even mere tens of thousands, the Saxons ruled Eastern and Southern Britain by the year 500. The last Celtic king ruled the lands of Britannia around 700, and by around 800, only the Saxons remained throughout what we consider modern day England. What Britons and Celts still existing in those lands were “encouraged” to take on Saxon names and to speak Old English and they faded into history.

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Words and Deeds

by Medron Pryde on May 7, 2025 at 12:01 am

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There’s been a bit of a hubbub in my State. In one of our parks, one kid reportedly stole something from another child’s bag in the park, and the other mother called the kid a racial slur. At the same time, a reported pedophile was videotaping at the park and followed her back to her car while confronting her and published the video to social media.

So which of those two actions got the biggest reaction from Democrats and the Media? At the risk of repeating myself of course. And which of those two people has gotten the most attention on social media?

Lots of people have been asking why the pedophile was at the park in the first place of course.

But the mother had her full identity with social security number, address, and phone number published online. Her family has been attacked. Her life has been threatened, and CPS was sent to her home. The police are investigating her, and she says she needs to move for the safety of herself and her family.

Remember that the left often says that words are violent, but that violence is the voice of the people.

I’ve always been partial to the idea that actions speak louder than words. The world where that was taught was a much better world to grow up in…

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