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# The Saxon Way
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/32267/
- Published: 2014-04-05T06:06:50.000Z
- Updated: 2014-04-05T06:06:50.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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A lecture on early medieval history talked about Charlemagne's efforts to convert the Saxons through use of a revised Bible that would appeal more to Saxon sensibilities. This passage cracked me up (I assume most TDE readers will recognize that it retells the story from the Garden of Gethsemane):

'Christ's warrior companions saw warriors coming up the mountain making a great din  
 Angry armed men. Judas the hate filled man was showing them the way.  
 The enemy clan, the Jews, were marching behind.  
 The warriors marched forward, the grim Jewish army, until they had come to the Christ.  
 There he stood, the famous chieftain.  
 Christ's followers, wise men deeply distressed by this hostile action  
 Held their position in front.  
 They spoke to their chieftain, 'My Lord chieftain', they said, 'if it should now  
 Be your will that we be impaled here under spear points  
 Wounded by their weapons then nothing would be so good to us as to die here  
 Pale from mortal wounds for our chieftain'.

Then he got really angry  
 Simon Peter, the mighty, noble swordman flew into a rage.  
 His mind was in such turmoil he could not speak a single word.  
 His heart became intensely bitter because they wanted to tie up his Lord there.  
 So he strode over angrily, that very daring Thane, to stand in front of his commander  
 Right in front of his Lord.

No doubting in his mind, no fearful hesitation in his chest he drew his blade  
 And struck straight ahead at the first man of the enemy with all the strength in his hands  
 So that Malchus was cut and wounded on the right side by the sword.  
 His ear was chopped off.  
 He was so badly wounded in the head that his cheek and ear burst open with the mortal wound  
 Blood gushed out, pouring from the wound.  
 The men stood back; they were afraid of the slash of the sword.