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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 This information comes from various ancient historical documents, beginning in the 2nd century BC and extending into late antiquity. By the Early Middle Ages, early forms of ...
Concani / Gongani – two tribes of similar name (the Britannia Gangani and Hibernia Gangani) lived in Britannia and Hibernia, they could have been three branches of the same tribe, three related tribes with common ancestors or three different tribes that shared similar names. Coniaci / Conisci. Moroecani. Noegi.
Etymology. The etymology of the name Geat (Old English Geatas, from a Proto-Germanic * Gautaz, plural * Gautōz) is similar [ 4] to that of Goths and Gutes (* Gutô, plural * Gutaniz ). The names derive from ablaut grades of the Proto-Germanic word * geutaną, meaning "to pour". [ 5] They have the literal meaning "they who pour their seed". [ 6 ...
Germanisation of Gaul. Germanisation is the spread of the German people, customs and institutions. [1] The penetration of Germanic elements in the Gaul region began from the twilight of the Iron Age through migration of Germanic peoples like the Suebi and the Batavi (Germanic tribe) across the Rhine into Julius Caesar 's Roman Gaul. [2]
Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot. Dating to the late 1st century – early 2nd century A.D. The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who lived in the north of Europe in Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In modern scholarship, they typically include not only the Roman-era Germani who ...
List of Germanic deities. A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia ( Emil Doepler, 1905) In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses ...
Area of the Nordic Bronze Age culture, ca 1200 BC. Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorf culture that developed out of the Nordic Bronze Age.
Cimbri. Germania in the late 1st century AD; the Cimbri in northern Jutland. The Cimbri ( Greek: Κίμβροι, Kímbroi; Latin: Cimbri) were an ancient tribe in Europe. Ancient authors described them variously as a Celtic people (or Gaulish ), Germanic people, or even Cimmerian. Several ancient sources indicate that they lived in Jutland ...