Capitolo 10
lived together in the wastes heather-dressed and marshy lowlands of Denmark
and Northern Germany. The first poem of pagan of _Beowulf_ also gives us
a look of their ideas and their way of thought. The known physicist
characteristics of the run, the nature of the country that them
inhabited, the analogy of other Germanic tribes and the recent one
discoveries of the pre-historical archaeology, every help us asunder out a
their enough constant portrait of aspect, their way of the life and
their political and ill-mannered institutions.
We have to start to dismiss from our minds all those modern notions
what they are directly implicated almost inevitably by the use of language
deduced by that of our ancestors of pagan, but it mixed above now in ours
the conceptions with the most advanced forms of European civilisation. Us
it doesn't have to allow such words as "king" and the "English" to misguide us in a
kind of the filial blindness to the true nature of ours Teutonic
ancestors. The small community of wild and warlike growers that you/they lived
among the weak woody grounds of Sleswick, close to the swampy border of the
Sea of the North, is grown in the nucleus of an enormous empire, only a lot
partly Germanic in blood, and it enriched from the whole alien culture of
Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome. But as he/she anchors it preserves the
identical language of his/her first Barbaric days, we am naturally tried
light our acquired and modern feelings in the simple ones but you finish family
assumed by our continental predecessors. What you/they called the first English
a king us if time-a-day they had to call a head; their thing they called a reunion of
wise men us if time-a-day they had to call a conversation. In fact, we have to remember
what we am giving with a purely Barbaric run--not wild, indeed, neither
without a certain ill-mannered culture of his really, the result of long centuries
of development precedent; he/she essentially anchors soldier and raider in his
habits, and akin in his/her civilisation of the material to a lot of runs that us now