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    Germanic peoples. The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did not necessarily clearly differentiate between warfare and...
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    Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...
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    produced by continental Germanic societies like the Franks and Goths, or later Viking sources. As Underwood noted, "Warfare in the Anglo-Saxon period...
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    Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as...
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  • The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle...
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  • Comitatus (category Early Germanic warfare)
    comitatus was an armed escort or retinue, especially in the context of Germanic warrior culture for a warband tied to a leader by an oath of fealty. The...
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    Fyrd (category Early Germanic warfare)
    and farmers from the shires who would accompany their lords. The Germanic rulers in early medieval Britain relied upon the infantry supplied by a regional...
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  • The Goths, Gepids, Vandals, and Burgundians were East Germanic groups who appear in Roman records in late antiquity. At times these groups warred against...
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  • Furor Teutonicus (category Early Germanic warfare)
    in 102 BC. Berserker Harii Theodiscus Migration period Germanic wars Gothic and Vandal warfare Prussian virtues Lucanus, Pharsalia 1.255-256: vidimus...
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    or Germanic bodyguard was a personal, imperial guards unit for the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (30 BC – AD 68) composed of Germanic soldiers...
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    Holmgang (category Early Germanic warfare)
    Gwyn. "Some Characteristics of the Icelandic 'Holmganga'". J. Eng. & Germanic Philology 32 (1933) 203-224. Radford, R. S. "Going to the Island: A Legal...
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  • Hird (category Early Germanic warfare)
    they were undoubtedly some form of standing mercenary force. For this Germanic tradition the German generic term Gefolgschaft 'body of followers' is also...
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  • Thiufa (category Early Germanic warfare)
    needed] The term thiufadus derives from either the Latin devotus or the Germanic thusundifaths. The mechanism of the transmission via the latter is, however...
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  • Gabiniani (category Early Germanic warfare)
    for the king's protection. These Roman troops also included Gallic and Germanic horsemen. Because Egypt was nominally independent, the Gabiniani were not...
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  • Arimannia (category Early Germanic warfare)
    Arimannia (from Lombard ari-mann, "man of the army", that is "free man active in the army"; akin German "heer-mann") was - during the Lombard domination...
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    chronology of warfare between the Romans and various Germanic peoples. The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings...
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    Thingmen (category Early Germanic warfare)
    Brisingamen Danegeld Dís Eddas Einherjar Futhark Elder Futhark Younger Futhark Germanic deities Gothi Hnefatafl Holmgang Mjölnir Norsemen Norse funeral (ship burial)...
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  • Leidang (category Early Germanic warfare)
    on 2015-10-04. Hooper and Bennett. The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768–1487, pp. 22–24. Fortescue, J. W. (1899). A History...
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  • Angrivarian Wall (category Early Germanic warfare)
    search, perhaps also because of the increased public interest in Roman-Germanic history after the discovery of the Battlefield of Kalkriese and in the...
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    Varangian Guard (category Early Germanic warfare)
    the Normans".[This quote needs a citation] The Anglo-Saxons and other Germanic peoples shared with the Vikings a tradition of faithful (to death if necessary)...
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    Svinfylking (category Early Germanic warfare)
    Scandinavia and later by the Vikings. It was also used by Germanic peoples during the Germanic Iron Age and was known as the "Schweinskopf" or "Swine's...
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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...
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    Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...
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    duties, such as defending cities. Armies of the Rus' principalities Early Germanic warfare List of wars involving Kievan Rus' Painter, Sidney (1953). A history...
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  • clear is that the Germanic idea of warfare was quite different from the pitched battles fought by Rome and Greece. Instead, the Germanic tribes focused on...
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    Germanic languages of today. The North Germanic peoples are thought to have emerged as a distinct people in what is now southern Sweden in the early centuries...
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    Druzhina (category Early Germanic warfare)
    In the medieval history of Kievan Rus' and Early Poland, a druzhina, drużyna, or družyna (Slovak and Czech: družina; Polish: drużyna; Russian: дружина...
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    Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...
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  • Lendmann (category Early Germanic warfare)
    skald-poetry from the reign of king Olaf Haraldsson (reigned 1015–1028) in the early 11th century. The lendmenn had military and police responsibilities for...
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    into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages...
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