Germanic peoples. The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did not necessarily clearly differentiate between warfare and... 30 KB (3,521 words) - 11:27, 16 April 2024 |
produced by continental Germanic societies like the Franks and Goths, or later Viking sources. As Underwood noted, "Warfare in the Anglo-Saxon period... 15 KB (2,040 words) - 16:10, 27 September 2023 |
The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle... 39 KB (3,177 words) - 05:16, 8 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,509 words) - 11:29, 16 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,786 words) - 08:42, 27 April 2024 |
The Goths, Gepids, Vandals, and Burgundians were East Germanic groups who appear in Roman records in late antiquity. At times these groups warred against... 24 KB (3,101 words) - 04:58, 8 January 2024 |
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... 2 KB (184 words) - 16:30, 27 October 2023 |
Numerus Batavorum (redirect from Germanic bodyguard) 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... 7 KB (809 words) - 05:20, 18 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,643 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2024 |
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... 5 KB (694 words) - 19:51, 13 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (395 words) - 05:57, 5 March 2020 |
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... 8 KB (1,239 words) - 04:45, 22 December 2023 |
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... 1 KB (153 words) - 21:29, 26 July 2021 |
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)... 8 KB (1,071 words) - 07:57, 14 February 2024 |
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... 17 KB (2,499 words) - 12:21, 27 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (979 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024 |
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)... 40 KB (4,801 words) - 21:03, 6 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (377 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024 |
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... 76 KB (10,824 words) - 04:32, 28 March 2024 |
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... 4 KB (480 words) - 13:56, 21 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (218 words) - 14:23, 8 February 2022 |
into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages... 163 KB (20,172 words) - 09:20, 29 April 2024 |