Thor's Claw - Fable and Meanings

Later on Poseidon exchanged his Axe for a Trident. The origin of Frisian Regulations comes from the Frisian Lord Fosite. He visited on the stormy seas to the holy area of Frisia. There he put his guitar on the shore and a spring gushed up. The spot was named 'Axenshow,' or 'Axtemple.' The Frisians lay across the spring and the Lord Fosite taught them the Law.

The monks, cradled properly, because they thought, in the enjoy and peace of God, ended what they certainly were performing and peered curiously at these strange craft. They saw fierce looking men disgorging from the boats, brute-men in send byrnies and helms, with swords and axes. They didn't stop, but scaled the cliffs with a terrible function and made right for poor people, peace-loving monks Viking axes .

Unarmed and quite unused to martial methods, they went in stress, in this way and that, seeking to save lots of the precious relics and treasures of the monastery. What opportunity had they? The Vikings were curved on an orgy of eliminating and looting. Their swords pierced the monks' flesh, while these terrible war-axes separated brains from figures and in some instances sliced through from the throat to the waist, making half-men of those who had once been God fearing individual beings.

Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They made up altars, trampled on important relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They installed hard, uncaring on the job the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, written in equally Latin and Old British, showing the reports of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Several monks were killed, while the others were put in chains and resulted in the ships as slaves.