On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:41 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > Haywiremac wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:27:26 +0300 > > > > Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > >>Bring on the Visigoths! > > > > Was it the Visigoths that brought Rome down? I thought they > > lived in France...got wiped out by the Church in Medieval > > times... > > > > Either way, I like being on the side that's gonna kick some > > arrogant MS/Rome butt comin up real soon. :-D > > By the time the Roman Empire was in serious decline, everyone > was having a go - Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Huns, plus > the Persians in the East and a mishmash of minor German tribes > who had to be content with the lean pickings in Britain. But > it was Alaric the Visigoth who has the dubious distinction of > being the first to sack Rome, after a long siege in 410. > After his death, the Visigoths moved to France where, IIRC, > they combined forces with the Romans to fight Atilla the Hun > to a standstill in 453. > > Incidentally, when I was checking the date of Alaric's sack of > Rome, I happened on a page where every instance of "goth" had > been replaced by "goblin". Is this the result of too much > playing D&D, or has the dreaded MS spellchecker been at work > again? > > Sir Robin the Goblin
OK, but the Roman empire wasn't especially evil, was it ? And : I thought the Goths lived in Gothland ? Kaj Haulrich Living in the land of Teutons and Cambrians. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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