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Excerpt from The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland
The Monkish historians dwell with a natural and a peculiar horror on the destruction of the monasteries, the slaughter of the priests, and the desecration of the holy symbols of religion by the pagan Danes. But we, reading history in a calmer light, ought to remem ber that in times much nearer to our own the exter mination of an Opposing faith was held, not only as a justifiable act, but as a paramount obligation. The English Saxons could scarcely have suffered more from the pagan Northmen than their continental brethren from Charlemagne, who, in his wars undertaken for their conversion, slaughtered in cold blood of them in one day. Whatever estimate we may form of the conduct of that mighty conqueror, we ought not to judge the followers of Thor and Odin by a severer scale.
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