The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers (1910)
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 125
fierce resistance thehitherto pagan Saxons of the Continent, and by thevigour of the forced conversions to Christianity thatmarked his victorious footsteps he may have in-directly inspired, as a sort of pagan reaction, the Vi-king descents of the succeeding epoch. Southwardsin 744 A.D. he completed… … From the artistic point of view it should be borne in mind that this absorp-tion in the Prankish em-pire of the domains ofthe Buro^undians, Ale-manni, Lombards, andthe rest, did not neces-sarily involve the extinc-tion of any distinctiveartistic feeling which^, ^ ,. , ^ . , , had been cultivated in…
