We normally associate morality with Christianity. But Saint Boniface, who brought Christianity to Germany, described the pre-Christian morality of the Germans in the mid-eighth century:
In old Saxony if a virgin in her father’s house, or a married woman under the protection of her husband, should be guilty of adultery, they burn her, strangled by her own hand, and hang her seducer over her grave; or else, cutting off her garments to the waist, modest matrons whip her, and pierce her with knives, till they destroy her.
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