Kings and Generals on MSN

This tribe was the enemy of Rome - but ended up becoming its heir

We explore who the Franks really were, tracing their journey from fragmented raiding groups beyond the Rhine to indispensable soldiers of the Roman Empire. By examining archaeology, Roman sources, and ...
YouTube on MSN

The Battle of Lechfeld, 955 AD ⚔️ + The Battle of Tricamarum, 533 AD ⚔️ | Collapse of the Vandal Kingdom

When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries

The Kalevala, a poetic epic filled with myth, reflects the shared roots between Finnish and Karelian cultures.
IrishCentral

The sack of Baltimore: Ireland’s forgotten pirate tragedy

IrishCentral contributor John Joe McGinley on one of the most mysterious raids in Irish history, the Sack of Baltimore, when more than one hundred villagers were snatched from their beds by pirates ...