Quote Originally Posted by eadingas
Didn't read much of it, but I can tell you these guys are some 50 years too late in their understanding of European history. "Barbarian" laws and customs have at least equal, if not stronger, influence on our laws and customs today, to that of Rome and the classics. It is something quite obvious now, and no point debating it, really.
And let's not forget who won in the end :D
I dont think somebody particular won in the end. Meanning you cannot just consider all barbarian nations as an entity. You cannot do this even for Greeks. They fighted as nation (or sort of) only 3 times in history (trojan war persian wars and Alexanders march in Asia) and even in these cases there are many debatable points. The only people that maybe correspond to nation-race-state model are the romans.