A Possible Explanation for the Lack of Runic Inscriptions from Germania

For a long time now I have pondered the reasons for the smaller quantity of surviving runic artefacts from Germany and the German-speaking lands and the Netherlands compared to Scandinavia and even England and I believe that I have stumbled upon one possible explanation for this. As I was leafing through Friedrich Bernhard Marby's Marby-Runen-Bücherei I encountered the following interesting passage:

"Thus into the hands of Karl the Teuton Murderer came over 4,000 volumes of Germanic writings. After the death of Karl, on the recommendation of the Roman priests of 'Ludwig the Pious', a successor of Karl, entire writings were burned in an open marketplace and with that destroyed for ever." (My translation)

 
Thus we have Karl the Butcher who was not only responsible for the murder of millions of Saxons but the destruction of our sacred groves, temples, God images and runic writings. The wars against the Saxons in the 8th century was truly a war of semitic Christianity against the Wotanist and Irminist religious paths of our ancestors.


This widespread devastation of ancient Germanic spirituality was specific to Germania; Scandinavia having largely escaped this holocaust. The sacred writings which were not burned were buried away in the Vatican and the crypts of local churches.

"The Roman church did not stop in the 'collection' of old Germanic writings. Untranslated writings on Rune stones lie still today in the underground passageways and cellars of many churches and cloisters and especially in the Vatican. The act of collecting was continued later by the Jews, who for this reason were gladly 'Antiquarians'. Even some of the important written materials of the Initiates (the Cabbala etc) had to be transliterated into the Hebrew script and language, in order to save this valuable material from Rome. The Hebrew script and language was indeed not forbidden!-Thus came the Germanic Cabbala into the underground library of the Jewish synagogue in Cologne and emerged again later as the 'Jewish Cabbala' in Spain and North Africa." (Compare the writings of Guido von List). (My translation)

The subject of the Cabbala and links to Armanist teaching deserves an article in its own right and this is something which I hope to address in a future article.