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Carthage to Chauci
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09-03-2015, 12:09 PM
Quote:Opportunists in the piracy business... got employment in the off-season... patrol the waters of northern Europe for buccaneers...

As Robert mentioned above, the Chauci (and Franks, and Saxons, Frisians etc) were not 'pirates' in the 17th-18th century way. They were traditional Germanic coastal raiders, operating as Germanic warrior bands had done for centuries, possibly with the greater reach given them (if we follow John Haywood in Dark Age Naval Power) by the adoption of the sail. So no need for them to get 'off season' jobs, or hang around the ports of Roman Gaul.


Quote:Evidently, Baals were lingering on

Ah, but that would involve evidence! ;-)

What's your last dateable reference to a god called Ba'al?
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Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 08-31-2015, 03:55 AM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 08-31-2015, 11:23 AM
Carthage to Chauci - by Nathan Ross - 08-31-2015, 12:06 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 08-31-2015, 08:07 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by Robert Vermaat - 09-02-2015, 01:32 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 09-02-2015, 10:21 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by Robert Vermaat - 09-03-2015, 07:39 AM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 09-03-2015, 08:54 AM
Carthage to Chauci - by Robert Vermaat - 09-03-2015, 11:56 AM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 09-03-2015, 12:08 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by Nathan Ross - 09-03-2015, 12:09 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by john welch - 09-03-2015, 12:32 PM
Carthage to Chauci - by Robert Vermaat - 09-08-2015, 07:28 AM

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