The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals may have given their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia, then Arabic Al-Andalus), in the south of Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgund ...

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Vandals - Origins Vandals - History
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Arheimar - Source and External link

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Angles (German: Angeln, Old English: Englas, Latin: singular Anglus, plural Anglii) were Germanic people, from Angeln in Schleswig, who settled in East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria in the 5th century. Southern and eastern Britain was later called Engla-lond (in Old English, "Land of the Angles"), thus England. For the rulers of the Angles prior to their migration to Britain, see List of kings of the Angles. Angles - Early history. Possibly the first instance of the Angle ...

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Angles - Early history Angles - Angle influence in Britain Angles - St. Gregory Angles - External link

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The Cimbri were a Proto-Germanic tribe who according to Pliny the Elder lived on Jutland (Chersonesus Cimbrica), and the Jutish region of Himmerland (where the contemporary Gundestrup cauldron was found) is thought to preserve their name (cf. Grimm's law, K->H). The name has been analysed as the name kimme meaning "rim", i.e. the people of the coast[1], but there is also the hypothesis that the name is related to that of the Cimmerians. Charles Kingsley links the name to the word "Champ(ion)" which gives us the ...

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Cimbri - Moving south-east Cimbri - Invading Gaul Cimbri - Attacking the Roman Republic Cimbri - Defeat Cimbri - Culture

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The Chatti (also Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of the Weser river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder, Fulda and Werra river regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Cassel, though probably somewhat more extensive. According to Tacitus (Histories iv. under AD 70 [1]), among them were the Batavii, until an internal quarrel drove them out, to ...

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2000 years ago the Baltic Sea was known to the Romans as the Mare Suebicum. Partially because of his unfamiliarity with the various Germanic peoples interacting with Rome at the time, the historian Tacitus referred to all eastern Germanic people as Suebi. More recent scholarship has shown that view to be an oversimplification. The Suebi eventually migrated south and west to reside for a while in the Rhineland area of modern Germany, where their name survives in the historic region known as Swabia. The Suebi under Ariovistus were invited into Gallia by the Aedui but soon came to dominate them and were fina ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Suebic kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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Explaining the origins of the Goths, Jordanes recounted: The same mighty sea has also in its arctic region, that is in the north, a great island named Scandza, from which my tale (by God's grace) shall take its beginning. For the race whose origin you ask to know burst forth like a swarm of bees from the midst of this island and came into the land of Europe. [...] Now from this island of Scandza, as from a hive of races or a womb of nations, the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king, Berig by name ...

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Goths, Goths - Historical sources, Goths - History, Goths - Origins, Goths - Archaeology, Goths - Linguistics, Goths - Symbolic meaning, Goths - Notes

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The history of this tribe is shrouded in the mists of time. Besides Scandinavian mythology and Germanic legend, only a few sources describe them and there is very little information, in spite of the fact that the tribe existed already during the first century A.D. Suiones - Romans. There are two sources from the 1st century A.D that are quoted as referring to the Suiones. The first one is Pliny the Elder who said that the Romans had rounded the Cimbric peninsula (Jutland) where there was the Coda ...

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Suiones, Suiones - On the name, Suiones - Location, Suiones - Etymology, Suiones - History, Suiones - Romans, Suiones - Jordanes, Suiones - Anglo-Saxon sources, Suiones - Adam of Bremen, Suiones - Norse sagas

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2000 years ago the Baltic Sea was known to the Romans as the Mare Suebicum. Partially because of his unfamiliarity with the various Germanic peoples interacting with Rome at the time, the historian Tacitus referred to all Elbe-Germanics as Suebi. More recent scholarship has shown that view to be an oversimplification. The Suebi eventually migrated south and west to reside for a while in the Rhineland area of modern Germany, where their name survives in the historic region known as Swabia. The Suebi under Ariovistus were invited into Gallia by the Aedui but soon came to dominate them and were fina ...

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Suebi, Suebi - Early history, Suebi - Sueve kingdom of Gallaecia, Suebi - Suebi Kings of Gallaecia

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Jordanes names a multitude of tribes living in Scandza, which he named the Womb of nations, and they were taller and more ferocious than the Germans (archaeological evidence has shown the Scandinavians of the time were tall, probably due to their diet). The listing represents several instances of the same people named twice, which was probably due to the gathering of information from diverse travellers and from Scandinavians arriving to join the Goths, such as Rodwulf from Bahusia. Whereas linguists have been able to connect most names to regions in Scandinavia, there ...

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Scandza, Scandza - Geographical description, Scandza - On the Midsummer summer sun and the Midwinter darkness, Scandza - The inhabitants, Scandza - Myths about Scandza, Scandza - Sources

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Precautionary Note: These ethnic names were culled from a variety of ancient and mediaeval sources dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium AD. They do not necessarily represent contemporaneous, distinct or Germanic-speaking populations. The peoples referenced do not necessarily have common ancestral populations. Some identities closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes. Some may not have spoken Germanic at all, but were bundled by the sources with ...

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List of Germanic peoples, List of Germanic peoples - Ancient, List of Germanic peoples - Contemporary

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Tacitus says (35) that the Chamavi had moved into the lands of the Bructeri. As to why the Bructeri were no longer there, the Latin is phrased in such a way as not to reveal the details: pulsis Bructeris ac penitus excisis vicinarum consensu nationum... the Bructeri having been expelled and nearly destroyed by an alliance of neighboring peoples... As these same neighbors became the later Salian Franks, the "consensus" m ...

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Chamavi, Chamavi - Origin of the Chamavi, Chamavi - Movement Up the Rhine, Chamavi - With the Salian Franks, Chamavi - Conflict With the Last Emperors of a Single Rome, Chamavi - Fading Into History

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The Vandals were divided in two tribal groups, the Silingi and the Hasdingi. The Silingi lived in an area recorded for centuries as Magna Germania, now Silesia. In the 2nd century, the Hasdingi, led by the kings Raus and Rapt (or Rhaus and Raptus) moved south, and first attacked the Romans in the lower Danube area, then made peace and settled in western Dacia (Romania) and Roman Hungary. In 400 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals along with their allies, (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians), star ...

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Vandals, Vandals - Origins, Vandals - History, Vandals - Gaul, Vandals - Iberia, Vandals - Africa, Vandals - Sack of Rome, Vandals - Decline, Vandals - List of kings, Vandals - Vandalic language, Vandals - Modern heritage

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However, in 103 BC, the Cimbri and their Proto-Germanic allies, the Teutons, had turned to Spain where they pillaged far and wide. During this time C. Marius had the time to prepare and, in 102 BC, he was ready to meet the Teutons and the Ambrones at the Rhône River. These two tribes intended to pass into Italy through the western passes, while the Cimbri and the Tigurines were to take the northern route across the Rhine an ...

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Cimbri, Cimbri - Moving south-east, Cimbri - Invading Gaul, Cimbri - Attacking the Roman Republic, Cimbri - Defeat, Cimbri - Culture

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The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th century, they were referred to as Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by Jordanes and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gautar, and in Beowulf and Widsith as Geatas. The Geats were formerly politically independent of the Swedes, whose old name was Svear (Sweon or Sweonas in OE). However ...

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Geat, Geat - History, Geat - On Geats and Goths, Geat - On Gautar and Geatas

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Explaining the origins of the Goths, Jordanes recounted: The same mighty sea has also in its arctic region, that is in the north, a great island named Scandza, from which my tale (by God's grace) shall take its beginning. For the race whose origin you ask to know burst forth like a swarm of bees from the midst of this island and came into the land of Europe. [...] Now from this island of Scandza, as from a hive of races or a womb of nations, the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king, Berig by name ...

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Goths, Goths - History, Goths - Origins, Goths - Archaeology, Goths - Linguistics, Goths - Symbolic meaning, Goths - Notes

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Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus' Germania, chapter 40, in which the Anglii are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes. He gives no precise indication of their geographical position, but states that, together with six other tribes, including the Varini (the Warni of later times), they worshipped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was situated on "an island in the Ocean." Ptolemy in his Geography (ii. 11. § 15), half a century later, locates them with more preci ...

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Angles, Angles - Early history, Angles - Angle influence in Britain, Angles - St. Gregory, Angles - External link

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The saga deals with the cursed sword Tyrfing and how it was forged and cursed by the Dwarves Dvalin and Durin for king Svafrlami. Later, he lost it to the beserker Arngrim from Bolmsö who gave it to his son Angantyr. Angantyr died during a fight on Samsø against the Swedish hero Hjalmar, whose friend Orvar-Odd buried the cursed sword in a barrow together with Angantyr. From the barrow it was retrieved by Angantyr's daughter, the shieldmaiden Hervor who summoned her dead father to claim her inheritance. Then the saga continues with her and ...

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Hervarar saga, Hervarar saga - Synopsis, Hervarar saga - Versions, Hervarar saga - Age, Hervarar saga - Tolkien, Hervarar saga - Bibliography

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Some time before 100 BC many of the Cimbri, as well as the Teutones, left southern Scandinavia and migrated south-east. After several battles with the Boii and other Celtic tribes, they appeared ca 113 BC in Noricum, where they invaded the lands of one of Rome's allies, the Taurisci. At this time, if not before, they had picked up substantial Celtic elements, as allies and the majority of the migrating Cimbri may have been Celtic, such as the Ambrones. On the request of the Roman consul Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, sent to defend the Taurisci, they retreated only to find themselves deceived and attacked at Noreia. In a bloody battle, the ...

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Cimbri, Cimbri - Moving south-east, Cimbri - Invading Gaul, Cimbri - Attacking the Roman Republic, Cimbri - Defeat, Cimbri - Culture

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It was not until 105 BC that they planned an attack on the Roman Empire itself. At the Rhône River, the Cimbri clashed with the Roman armies. The Roman commanders, the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, hindered Roman coordination and so the Cimbri succeeded in first defeating the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus and later cause a devastating defeat on Caepio and Manlius at the Battle of Arausio. The Romans lost as many as 80,000 men not including the lost auxiliary cavalry and the non-combatants w ...

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Cimbri, Cimbri - Moving south-east, Cimbri - Invading Gaul, Cimbri - Attacking the Roman Republic, Cimbri - Defeat, Cimbri - Culture

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