No! No! This not a "glorification of violence"! Apparently he himself acknowledged that without the "protection" of the power of Charles Martel - he wdnt hv succeeded. Physically destroying pre-Christian shrines was his style. His victims in Frisia cut him down though.
Christian version paints his executioners as "robbers" looking for "gold", but Frisian resistance to Carolingian-Church war on "pagans", had been staunch - and a fitting reprisal to the violence that early evangelist militants like Boniface unleashed on pre-Christian sites.
The literature of the era show how violent military campaigns and protection was key to church's expansion in northern Europe. Willibrord, Boniface, Sturmi, Liudger, and Willehad, all r praised in the literature of the era for having destroyed the hated objects of "pagan" worship
The Carolingians actively cleared "pagan" sites for church. Charles Martel burned numerous Frisian temples during a campaign in 734. Charlemagne destroyed the Irminsul, a temple in Saxony, during the campaign of 772.[Annales regni Francorum].
If they say, as in secular scum Mahmud Gaznavi holidays in India, that destruction was in heat of battle - we have direct indication from church sources that such destruction was part of general missionary policy.
Albericus, bishop of Utrecht and so director of missionary activity in Frisia, ordered Liudger and other priests to carry out a general program of destruction of pagan centers of worship in Frisia. Liudger was also directed by to go to Heligoland to destroy its "pagan" temple.
Carolingian rulers were exhorted again and again to root out paganism with the sword, destroying every sign and symbol of the worship of pagan gods. [Altfrid, Vita Liudgeri, Lib. I, c.16 (ed. W. Diekam, p20-22)] [Translatio sancti Liborii, c.5 (ed. G. Pertz, MGGH, SS., iv, 151);
[Epistolae variorum Carolo Magno regnante scriptae, #1 (ed. Dummler, MGLH, Epistolae, iv, 496); Codex Carolinus, #76 (ed. W. Gundlach, MGH, Epistolae, III, 607-608); Einhard, Vita Karoli magni imperatoris, c.7(ed. L.Halphen, Les Classiques de l'Histoire de France au Moyen Age)]
