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He who is the Lord of War ought to be appeased by the shedding of human blood. I'm Jenny Williamson.

And I'm Jan McManamey.

And this is Ancient History Fan Girl.

So in our last episode about Amala Swinta and the end of the Austrogothic kingdom, we said we were next going to turn to the Visigothic kingdom, which was over on the Iberian Peninsula, modern-day France, and Spain, and tell you the story of that kingdom, but actually, we're not.

Nope. We have to take a little bit of a detour, to understand that kingdom, we have to understand some other things first. I was going to go and put them back to back, but Jen was like, you know what, Jenny, I feel like before we get into the Visigothic kingdom, you've got to explain the religion to me because that is a big part of this story. So I'm like, okay, I guess we'll do that. So that's what we're

doing. The religion in question was Christianity. And of course, there's a lot to say about

Christianity and the Goths, because they were one of the earliest Germanic groups that

converted to Christianity. But before I can talk about the Christianity, I want to talk about

the paganism that came before it, because we know so little about it, but that would have also been a factor in how they saw the world and how that colored their relationship to Christianity, how it colored their relationship to the Roman Empire and things like that.

So I felt like it was important to do both.

So that's what we're here today to do.

The story of the Visigothic kingdom can't be told

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