Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tacitus claims that many Germanic warriors went into battle naked or scantily clad, and that for many the only defensive equipment was a shield, something also shown on Roman depictions of Germanic warriors. [47] The Germanic word for breastplate, brunna, is of Celtic origin, indicating that it was borrowed prior to the Roman period. [50]
The Harii (West Germanic "warriors") [1] were, according to a single brief remark by the 1st century CE Roman historian Tacitus, a Germanic people; the most powerful of the Lugian group of states (), who in turn dominated a large part of the Suebian part of Germania in an area north of the Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains, in the region of present day Poland and eastern Germany.
As names in the Þiðreks saga typically adapt a German name, only figures that are not attested outside of the Þiðreks saga are listed under that name, even if most information on the figure is from the Þiðreks saga. Because the Þiðreks saga is based on German sources, it is counted as a German attestation. Excluded from the list are:
The ancient Germanic-speaking peoples probably shared a common poetic tradition, alliterative verse, ... [343] [344] Germanic warriors fought mostly on foot, ...
Arminius (/ ɑːr ˈ m ɪ n i ə s /; 18/17 BC–AD 21) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed.
Germanic epics, such as the Nibelungenlied and Beowulf, describe the strong influence which royal women exerted in their society. [90] Goddesses revered among the Germanic tribes include Nerthus of the Ingvaeones and Freya. [90] Tacitus describes how, during battles, Germanic warriors were encouraged and cared for by their wives and mothers.
Victor Millet refers to three criteria to define Germanic heroic legend: 1) it either originates in the Migration Period or it is (vaguely) set in the Migration Period, which plays the role of a "heroic age;" 2) the legends mythologize the heroic age, so that it no longer is concretely fixed in history, allowing persons who in reality never met ...
The Germanic Wars, second century, www.unrv.com October 2010; Roman Germanic Wars, 12 BC to 17 AD, www.heritage-history.com October 2010; Timeline of Ancient Europe, www.earth-history.com October 2010; Speidel, Michael, 2004, Ancient Germanic warriors: Warrior styles from Trajan's column to Icelandic sagas. (book)