Halt de Klappe. The franks were and are germanic. Europe is one big happy family which was pushed westward by the huns and subsequently overran indigenous pops leaving only bits and pieces. Charlemagne held a big family reunion and the rest is history.
I (at least) certainly didn't expect this, but it doesn't seem all that surprising: a pan-Eurasian population in the grasslands south of the ice, not unlike the way the (pre-industrial) Arctic population was more-or-less a single ethnic group.
W.J Sidi, genius, came to similar conclusion based on linguists and his study of ancient history, it's in his book Tribes and States, a history of North America from perspective of native north eastern tribes, he apparently knew how to read their form writing, wampum belts.
Sidis " ..an important fact is that there were red men at one time in Europe as well as in America. The most persistent of Europe's cave-dwelling races were the Cro-Magnons, who were physically very much like the red race, and are even shown by some cave paintings in Western Europe as colored red and wearing the same sort of top-feathers as were common among the eastern Algonquins of North America. The Cro-Magnons were mainly located near the Atlantic regions of Europe, though found over most of Europe and northern Africa. The densest Cro-Magnon population appears to have been around the head of the Bay of Biscay, where there is stilspoken a language called Basque, which is totally unrelated to any languag
spoken a language called Basque, which is totally unrelated to any language on earth, but whose general structure resembles only the red-race languages of America. That this type of language must have once been general through most of Europe is indicated by European place-names; so that, apparently, the language spoken in Europe before the advent of the Aryans must have been one of red-race structure
It is quite possible that the first few waves of white invasion of Europe were absorbed by intermarriage, and the white men adopted the red civilization; but, since the red race had not the same immunity as the whites to the numerous germs the latter brought in with them, the newer waves of invasion gradually wiped the red men off the eastern hemisphere, though slowly enough to enable the whites to take over the civilization.
Telekinetic
Nov 30, 2012