Among our Germanic peoples, a caste of chosen warriors had to protect its honor with weapons.
This post is part of series drawing from the wisdom of Jan de Vries’ book “Die geistige Welt der Germanen”, or the spiritual world of the Germanic peoples.
This principle took a special place in Germanic society. The courage these men praised was that of the combative man, his fearlessness when faced with death, his defiant attitude toward fate.
But this didn’t mean they thought life was cheap. One can only give up life lightheartedly, with a lighthearted joke on one’s lips, when one has accepted death as one’s fate, and one has thus renounced life.
Courage grows to its highest perfection precisely in the face of death. This personal courage in that moment of highest danger was common to both men and women.
During the age of migrations, men moved their tribes around with women and children in tow, but when confronted by a superior opponent, the women defended themselves as much as the men did.
Tacitus, the Roman historian, wrote about how women would help men back on their feet who had fallen to the ground in battle, sometimes flashing their naked bosom to remind these men they should keep fighting to prevent their women from being captured by an enemy.
At the defeat of the Cimbri tribe in the year 101 BC, the women defended their wagon fort to the last drop of blood. When their men tried fleeing the enemy, as ranks broke down, they would beat their men, commanding them to return to the battlefield, and when all hope was lost, the women strangled their children and strung themselves up, because Germanic women knew it was better to be dead than a slave.
Now remind yourselves of today’s situation with the quarter million girls raped in the United Kingdom. With the mass invasion into our European lands. You all know where it stands.
Never lose your smile.