The Rest Is History
524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)
Dominic Sandbrook
It's basically a massive great pole sticking up out of the Saxon earth, famed across Saxony and believed by the Saxons to uphold the very heavens themselves. Charlemagne chops it down to demonstrate that this isn't true, that it has no sacral potency whatsoever. I guess even the looting of its treasures can be justified in terms of what churchmen in Charlemagne's realm
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