Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations in ancient times. . This information comes from various ancient historical documents, beginning in the 2nd century BC and extending into late antiq
For clarity, Germanic peoples, when defined as "speakers of a Germanic language", are sometimes referred to as "Germanic-speaking peoples". [2] Today, the term "Germanic" is widely applied to "phenomena including identities, social, cultural or political groups, to material cultural artefacts, languages and texts, and even specific chemical ...
A Germanic people who were possibly a remnant of the Langobards. [153] The name is from PGmc *χaþuz ("war") [154] and *barđaz ("beard"). [155] In Beowulf, Hróðgar's daughter Freawaru will marry their king Ingeld to bring peace between the tribes. At the wedding a young Dane will offend the Heaðobards by carrying one of their captured swords.
The Germanic peoples eventually overwhelmed the Western Roman Empire, which by the Middle Ages facilitated their conversion from paganism to Christianity and the abandonment of their tribal way of life. Certain traces of early Germanic culture have survived among the Germanic peoples up to the present day.
Germanic people by century (14 C); Early Germanic women (13 C, 4 P) * Germanic families (10 C, 3 P) Early Germanic warriors (11 C, 41 P) A. Alemannic people (3 C, 3 P)
Early Germanic peoples (40 C, 153 P) C. Germanic culture (8 C, 16 P) H. Germanic history (9 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Germanic peoples"
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples [1] and in a medieval context Norsemen, [2] were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula. [3] They are identified by their cultural similarities, common ancestry and common use of the Proto-Norse language from around 200 AD, a language that around 800 AD became the Old Norse language, which in turn later became the North ...
In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses. Germanic deities are attested from numerous sources, including works of literature, various chronicles, runic inscriptions , personal names, place names, and other sources.