The Wall

                                                       A Wall?

The secret is out. Someone here in the United States is determined to build a wall that will serve to protect us all from the dangers of uninvited  individuals who are 'flooding our country, causing alarm and danger to our democratic system and economy'. This wall will be built in a short time and paid for by the country that is sending these people to us. Details might be released in a few weeks. Maybe not.

 Wall of China

    Building walls and barriers is not really anything new. Walls have been used for decades. Many exist today. Everyone has heard of the famous Wall of China, built in the 14th century to stop the attacking nomadic tribes of the time. This huge barrier was 8,550 km, or 5,313 miles in length. The largest man-made barrier built.It’s still standing, but people have found other ways to get in to China..

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Berlin Wall

    The world-famous Berlin Wall was built with a different function in mind. It was erected to keep residents
in! Too many Eastern Germans were escaping to the Western side of the Berlin citylimits after WWII, and the wall stopped their immigration from tyranny. Residents on both side of the wall rebelled and, in time, forced the wall to be destroyed.Meanwhile, western German residents decorated the stark ediface with mocking graffitti before it's demise.

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    A seventy-five mile wall, known as the Hadrian

Hadrian Wall

Wall was built in England to protect their colony of Britiannia from the invasions of Scottish tribes.This wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly three hundred years.Built by the Roman army on the orders of the emperor Hadrian in AD 122, Hadrian’s Wall was made a World Heritage Site in 1987.
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Even in the US, The United States erected a wall dividing the border between Mexico  and the southern border of the US designed to control many immigrants who still wish to work in American fields and domestic services in order to help support their Mexican families back home. In the north, our US  Canadian border is 5,525 miles long, while our southern

border with Mexico is 1,989 miles erected on  a variety of terrain easily crossed in many locations. One southern section of our existing barrier, this desert wall runs through  ‘The Cactus Pipe National Park”.

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Another portion of the Brownsville, Texas barrier protects Americans from southern immigrants with a ‘moveable wall’. A Texas farmer is able to move a section of ‘The Wall’ to provide new grazing areas for his

farm animals, temporarily separating his horse from the barn for the moment.

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 Another section of ‘The Wall’  runs through a resident’s Texas back-yard.

Both are sections of a barricade between the US and Mexican territory covering 1,254 miles of  The Rio Grande River area.

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In Europe,

   “I can’t see a need for a fence”, Rune, the mayor of the Soer-Varanger region on the Russian-Norwegian border, told Reuters. “There are too many fences going up in Europe today.”
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Immigrants crossing into Norway.

Among our European friends, immigration has become a problem as residents are attempting to

escape war-torn countries. To ease the country’s burden of these immigrants, Russian authorities have given bicycles to escaping travelers, urging them to continue their journey into Norway. Norway has recently decided to secure that portion of this Russian-Norway border with added border security and a new fence border.This steel fence is expected to be 600 feet long and eleven feet high.

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Barriers and walls have been utilized for ages to control tribal conflicts. Raids were frequently small groups of raiders, rather then large armies, and shorter length of earth or available material served as defense and usually a deterrent.  Until the 9th century,  Scandinavian people lived in

small Germanic kingdoms and chiefdoms .  The Scandinavian people   appeared as a group separate from other Germanic nations, and at this time there was a noticeable increase in war expeditions (Viking raids) on foreign countries from the seas, which were easier to travel than Europe's inland forests.

Queen Thyra ordering the Danevirke.

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Linear earth barriers built for defense.

Legends mention a queen named Thyra, who ordered a barrier known as“The Danevirke”, to be built in the mid 930s. "Dane’s Dyke” was constructed to control the sea-borne Vikings who used their shore as a landing area. Mounds of earth in long banks were constructed to control the invader’s landing site  providing defending archers higher ground upon which they could attack the invaders who were forced to file through the narrowed approaches, providing easier targets.
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Swedish Götavirke barrer

Remains of Götavirke at the farm of Hageby, in Östergötland. In this image the remains of the dyke run from the bottom right up towards the trees and parallel with the road.
Remains of these barriers or walls have worn down in time, becoming part of the current European landscape and history. It is difficult to imagine the proposed "barriers" proposed in our country to be seen in the future as our scenery or landscape.

 US and Mexican border area.

 Perhaps, there is another way.