According to surviving chronicles, King Ramiro is said have ordered that the eyes of most the captured Vikings be gouged out (an allegedly common punishment in Ramiro’s kingdom at the time.) It would have been amusing to see the looks on some of those Vikings faces the moment they realized that the Asturians and Cantabrians [they erroneously viewed as soft/practice targets to roll over on the way to Al-Andalus] were battle-hardened Hispano-Goths who knew a thing or two about repelling foreign invaders.
I haven't read that, what's clear is that the Asturians fiercely resisted and expelled the Viking raiders. The Vikings probably decided that it wasn't worth it to lose more men in Asturias, considering how poor the region was at the time.
David Cot, what do you think of the theory that the African Latin that some of the Berbers would've been speaking influenced the development of the Romance languages in Spain?
As I mention in this episode I know that at least some Berbers spoke Mozarabic too. In the episode about Spanish Romance languages I said that the Romance of al-Andalus, Mozarabic, was heavily influenced by both Arabic and the language of the Berbers (not sure if they only spoke African Latin or other local languages). What's clear, and I discussed that too in that episode I think, is that when two cultures interact they influence each other. That doesn't mean that the influence is equal. Think about Latin, that was influenced in each region by the local languages, or Spanish that incorporated many words of the native languages of America or Asia.
@Alliam Isaman He was talking about the Latin dialect(s) spoken in North Africa. Latin wasn't spoken in the same way in Romania than in Hispania or Syria, there were differences like the differences we find between the Spanish of Castile or the Spanish of Ecuador.
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According to surviving chronicles, King Ramiro is said have ordered that the eyes of most the captured Vikings be gouged out (an allegedly common punishment in Ramiro’s kingdom at the time.)
It would have been amusing to see the looks on some of those Vikings faces the moment they realized that the Asturians and Cantabrians [they erroneously viewed as soft/practice targets to roll over on the way to Al-Andalus] were battle-hardened Hispano-Goths who knew a thing or two about repelling foreign invaders.
I haven't read that, what's clear is that the Asturians fiercely resisted and expelled the Viking raiders. The Vikings probably decided that it wasn't worth it to lose more men in Asturias, considering how poor the region was at the time.
David Cot, what do you think of the theory that the African Latin that some of the Berbers would've been speaking influenced the development of the Romance languages in Spain?
As I mention in this episode I know that at least some Berbers spoke Mozarabic too. In the episode about Spanish Romance languages I said that the Romance of al-Andalus, Mozarabic, was heavily influenced by both Arabic and the language of the Berbers (not sure if they only spoke African Latin or other local languages). What's clear, and I discussed that too in that episode I think, is that when two cultures interact they influence each other. That doesn't mean that the influence is equal. Think about Latin, that was influenced in each region by the local languages, or Spanish that incorporated many words of the native languages of America or Asia.
@Alliam Isaman He was talking about the Latin dialect(s) spoken in North Africa. Latin wasn't spoken in the same way in Romania than in Hispania or Syria, there were differences like the differences we find between the Spanish of Castile or the Spanish of Ecuador.