no matter are we see it as destine of Celts or destine of Slavs it is destine of European natives who were forced to retreat and were then mercilessly hunted by slave hunters. We Slavs (SLOVENI) remembered that time as beginning of so called `Drive to the East` that was followed with violent germanization. Now, while others writes Slavic history we can at least try to remember...
Beowulf - Cry of the Celts
The Conversion and Destruction of the Wends By E.L. Skip Knox http://oit.boisestate.edu/sknox/thesis/chapt2.html
INVADERE ET SUBIUGARE
"Charles, travelling through Saxony, came to the Elbe River. Invading the land of the Slavs who are called Wilzi, he conquered them in great battles and subjugated them to his law."
One trait often associated with the Saxons by modern historians when speaking of avarice is "land hunger." Thompson speaks of "the covetous land-grabbing aspiration of the great" nobles, and of their "lust for land."67 Dvornik uses the actual phrase, also calling it a "greed for new possessions." The Conversion and Destruction of the Wends By E.L. Skip Knox http://oit.boisestate.edu/sknox/thesis/chapt2.html
By then the three forces of the sword, the cross, and the plough were definitely welded into a single force, a Drang nach Osten. By 1181 the actual territory won was still rather modest in comparison with later acquisitions: Holstein and Brandenburg were the main regions.
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