Vandalism In Beowulf

THE THIRD ANGEL BLEW HIS TRUMPET, AND A GREAT STAR FELL FROM HEAVEN, BLAZING LIKE A TORCH, AND IT FELL ON A THIRD OF THE RIVERS AND ON THE FOUNTAINS OF WATER.––While the Vandals were ravaging the sea, the Huns, under Attila, conquered the rich river valleys of the Western Empire. For twenty years, 433–453 A.D., he swept up and down the rivers Danube, Marne, Rhine, Poe, and Adda. Historians remember him as the “scourge of God.” He died suddenly of internal hemorrhaging in 453, and was buried in a hidden grave which tradition says was in the bed of the Danube River. The ingenious Huns diverted the river to bury him and then allowed it to return to its bed to forever hide his resting place. Truly like a comet or “torch” from heaven he “fell on a third of the rivers.”

8:11 THE NAME OF THE STAR IS WORMWOOD. A THIRD OF THE WATERS BECAME WORMWOOD, AND MANY MEN DIED OF THE WATER, BECAUSE IT WAS MADE BITTER.––“Wormwood” is a bitter plant that grows in the desert. Attila, who swept out of the desert plains with his horde of Huns, was the source of great sadness, “made bitter,” to all he touched.

THE FALL OF ROME BY THE HERALI (476 A.D.)

8:12 THE FOURTH ANGEL BLEW HIS TRUMPET, AND A THIRD OF THE SUN WAS STRUCK, AND A THIRD OF THE MOON, AND A THIRD OF THE STARS, SO THAT A THIRD OF THEIR LIGHT WAS
“Crying with a loud voice,” it is in agony over the disaster that awaits it. The three “woes” indicate that God is the power behind these events. The “woes” also outline the rest of the book; the Southern Roman Empire will be overwhelmed by the Muslim Arabs, the Eastern empire by the Ottoman Turks, and the revised Western Empire will be finally judged and brought to its end in the final woe or