Today, the biggest of Germanic tribes – the Germans, have their ancestry in the tribes that conquered Rome and many others, but their real origin is a little mysterious. Arabic historian Al-Masudi (cca 890 – 956) in his book Kitab at-tanhib va I-israf (The Book of Admonition and Re...
The works of classical authors, written mostly in Latin and occasionally in Greek, throw some light on the religion of Germanic peoples; however, their interest in the religious practices of Germanic tribes remains limited to its direct relevance to their narrative, as when Strabo describes the go...
This in essence weakened the defenses and as such made it easier for the Germanic tribes to move through the weakly protected frontiers and take control over nearly all the west of the Roman Empire. Overpowered, the Romans were not able to fight their invaders and this led to the fall of ...
The works of classical authors, written mostly in Latin and occasionally in Greek, throw some light on the religion of Germanic peoples; however, their interest in the religious practices of Germanic tribes remains limited to its direct relevance to their narrative, as when Strabo describes the go...