Web-article //2012. In most history books the Heruls are mentioned as a people of Scandinavian origin. The only historical source for that claim is the work "Getica" from 551 AD by the Gothic historian, Jordanes. But Jordanes never wrote that - and no other historian wrote that they returned, as Procopius is often falsely quoted. Jordanes connected their etymology with the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1998. — 292 p. This book offers a survey of the history and archaeology of the Longobards (known until recently as the Lombards), one of the many barbarian tribes who exploited the collapse of the Roman Empire. Neil Christie was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and subsequently held a Scholarship at the British...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 304 p. While Gaiseric has not become a household name like other 'barbarian' leaders such as Attila or Genghis Khan, his sack of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals, synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric, however, was no moronic thug, proving himself a highly skilful political and military leader and was one of the dominant forces in...
Malden – Oxford – Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. – 365 p. – (The Peoples of Europe). The Vandals have not been treated kindly by history, or by historians. For almost a hundred years, the group exerted a massive influence over the crumbling Roman world. From ad 439 when the Vandals first occupied Carthage, they created a strikingly precocious kingdom in the shadow of the...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. — ix + 407 p. — (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies, 11). — ISBN: 978-90-5356-253-6. This study explores the use and significance of Roman weaponry and horse gear from non-military contexts in the eastern Rhine delta – the territory of the Batavians. Using a life-cycle model for Roman soldiers, the author interprets the large quantity...
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2013. — 257 s. Barbaren oder blonde Helden - wer waren die Ureinwohner Deutschlands? Als Haudegen aus der Tiefe Nordeuropas beeindruckten und erschreckten sie die antike Welt. Ihr Widerstand gegen Rom, ihre zentrale Rolle in der Völkerwanderung und ihr Machtbewusstsein haben die Germanen zu Vorfahren vieler heutiger Nationen Europas werden lassen. Aber...
Routledge, 2025. — 694 p. This book argues that tribal Scandinavia was set on the route to kingship by the arrival in the AD 180s – 90s of warrior groups that were dismissed from the Roman army after defeating the Marcomanni by the Danube. Using a range of evidence, this book details how well-equipped and battle-seasoned warriors, familiar with Roman institutions and practices,...
Routledge, 2004. — 294 p. — ISBN: 0-415-31199-3. Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders, long-hairs, ghost warriors...
Vierte Auflage. — Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1942. — 186 S. Mit 40 Bildern unk Karten im Tert und auf Tafeln. Vorwort. Tausend Jahre Volkersturm. Altupsalas heilige Macht. Eruler, Goten und Gauten. Konige auf Seeland und Jutland. Erwachen Norwegens. Bauerninsel Island. Schweden - Vormacht Osteuropas. Auf Stromwegen durch Russland. Einung und Aufstieg Danemarks....
Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1975. — 391 p. Strom Ake V., Biezais H. Religion of the ancient Germans and ancient Balts (in German) Inhalt: Germanische Religion. Einleitung. Urgermanische Religion. Südgermanische Religion der Eisenzeit. Nordgermanische Religion der Eisenzeit. Gemeinsame Vorstellungen. Der Ausklang. Baltische Religion. Einleitung. Die Astralgötter. Die...
2nd edition. — Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004. — 266 p. — (The Peoples of Europe). — ISBN: 1-4051-1714-1. For many centuries Germanic peoples occupied much of northern and central Europe. From the fourth century onward migrant groups extended their power and influence over much of western Europe and beyond to North Africa. In so doing, they established enduring states in...
München: Verlag C.H.Beck, überarbeitete Auflage, — 2007. — ISBN: 3-406-39004-8. Diese höchst kurzweilige Einführung faßt ebenso knapp wie einprägsam zusammen, was man über die Welt der Germanen unbedingt wissen sollte. Eloquent und kenntnisreich führt Herwig Wolfram den Leser in Herkunft und Mythen, Leben und Wirken der Germanen ein, porträtiert ihre Stämme und erzählt die...
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