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It's been a while since I saw anything in German--the grammar we've been tackling has become more and more difficult of late that I almost always end up with a headache afterwards.  The sentence structure is quite different from English, Bisaya, or Tagalog.  I feel like my brain is marinating in Hauptsatz, Nebensatz, Konjunktors, Praesens, Perfekt, usw.  What's more, reading and writing are wholly different matters from listening and speaking.  The latter are like the former in warp speed.  There are instances when I could actually sense my eyeballs crossing in the middle of constructing an intelligible sentence.  Anyhow, I watched a documentary last week about the earliest history of Germany.  It had not subtitles.  I had nothing to rely on but my ears and my imagination.  This is what I saw and/or imagined:  There was a young boy being patronized by a priest--a special high ranking one with those cone like things on the the head meant to look like a crown, I guess--and the boy was some kind of child ruler.  He was ten or something.  Anyhow, the soldiers from this boy's side (obviously a crony of the rich and  strongly Catholic Franks), pillaged and burned a poor pagan village to the ground.  This was how they spread the religion, join or burn.  Nothing's really changed much, has it?  But a man survived and he swore vengeance.  He almost won, too, but in the end he got converted to mpeg to fit ipod settings.  I had first thought that he was this xxx the Great, after whom the documentary was titled, but to my surprise, it's the little boy who was actually called xxx the Great.  I guess he grew up.  It's confusing.  Maybe I'll watch the documentary again when my German is better, then probably it will all make sense.  It's not clear to me how this boy ended up with 'the Great' as a title.  Maybe he turned out to be an obese lord of the armored bullies or maybe because he was able to subjugate this uneducated, illiterate farmer by using his priests to convert the hapless guy into Catholicism by promising him heaven in the afterlife if he gives them half of this harvests every year.  I really have no idea.  I have misgivings about watching the next documentary fearing I might be erroneously correct.  Imagine the implications!  But then again, it almost always is worse than I could ever imagine.