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    Paul the Deacon (c. 720s – 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes...
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    Paul Deacon (born 13 February 1979) is an English rugby union coach who is the head coach of the Sale Sharks in Premiership Rugby, and former a professional...
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    Lombards (redirect from The Lombards)
    568 and 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the History of the Lombards (written between 787 and 796) that the Lombards descended...
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    John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several...
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    Whirlpool (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    him down. — Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, i.6 Three of the most notable literary references to the Lofoten Maelstrom date from the nineteenth...
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    By the time Paul the Deacon was writing in the late 8th century, the Lombardic language, dress and hairstyles had all disappeared. Initially the Lombards...
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  • from Paul the Deacon, a theory also suggested by Walter Goffart. The Chronicon does not contain the story of Odin (Godan) and Frigg (Frea) that the Origo...
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    Saxons (redirect from The Saxons)
    (for example in the work of Paul the Deacon) to distinguish the Germanic inhabitants of Britain from continental Saxons (referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
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    Janus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the nature of the god. The first one is based on the definition of Chaos given by Paul the Deacon: hiantem, hiare, "be open", from which the word Ianus would...
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    the 8th century by Paul the Deacon. The Miracle of Lanciano, together with the Eucharistic miracle of Santarém, in Portugal, is considered among the most...
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    may dispose of them except the sultan, from whom they are bought in exchange for woven stuffs. — Ibn Battuta Paul the Deacon mentions cynocephali in his...
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    before the Frankish conquest are the anonymous 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum and the 8th-century Historia Langobardorum of Paul the Deacon. The earliest...
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    already had a relationship with the Frankish noblewoman Himiltrude, and they had a son in 769 named Pepin. Paul the Deacon wrote in his 784 Gesta Episcoporum...
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    The History of the Lombards or the History of the Langobards (Latin: Historia Langobardorum) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon, written in the late...
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  • Church—what some medievalists have called Friedelehe—although the concept is controversial. Paul the Deacon writes in his Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium that Pepin...
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    A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among...
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    Kingdom. Paul the Deacon places a settlement in his history of the migration of the Bulgars in the area of the Duchy of Benevento. Under the leadership...
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    Scandinavia (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
    in the nationalistic discourse of various European countries. The form Scadinavia as the original home of the Langobards appears in Paul the Deacon' Historia...
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  • of the Heruli, who was slain. This was a devastating blow to the Heruli and augmented the power of the Lombards. According to Paul the Deacon, the war...
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    Thurisind's son. The cause of the conflict is uncertain, as the sources are divided; the Lombard Paul the Deacon accuses the Gepids, while the Byzantine historian...
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    derived from the Roman-era Veneti) may have applied to Slavic peoples. However, sources such as the Chronicle of Fredegar and Paul the Deacon are neither...
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    contemporaries of the pandemic are included in the texts of Evagrius Scholasticus, John of Ephesus, Gregory of Tours, Paul the Deacon, and Theophanes the Confessor;...
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    Langobardorum of Paul the Deacon, who lived in the 8th century.[citation needed] Boccaccio also drew on Ovid's works as inspiration. He has been called "the Italian...
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    Bede (redirect from The Venerable Bede)
    collected by Paul the Deacon, and they were used in that form in the Monastic Office. Boniface used Bede's homilies in his missionary efforts on the continent...
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    because his youth made him appear harmless, described as adolescens in Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum (Book VI, xxii), suggesting that he was 'probably...
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  • to the Romans. Paul refers to her both as a "servant" or "deacon" (Greek diakonos) and as a helper or patron of many (Greek prostatis). This is the only...
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    Tiberius II Constantine (category People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars)
    populace who had turned against him. According to Paul the Deacon, Tiberius found two treasures: the treasure of Narses and 1,000 centenaria: 100,000 pounds...
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    Goffart, Walter (2005). The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550–800) : Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon. Notre Dame, Ind: University...
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    the heat of the sun, the more it abounds in diseases and is less fitted for the bringing up of the human race. — Paul the Deacon It is likely that Proto-Norse...
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    Anthemius (category People executed by the Roman Empire)
    deposed Avitus and Majorian and supported the election of Libius Severus. Cassiodorus, Chronicon, 1289; Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana, xv.2; John of Antioch...
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