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    in the Origo Gentis. Licinius Macer (died 66 BC) wrote an account cited in the Origo Gentis. Vennonius wrote an account cited in the Origo Gentis. Juba...
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  • In medieval studies, an origo gentis is the origin story of a gens (people). It is not a literary genre of its own, but it is a part of quite extensive...
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    The Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Latin for "Origin of the tribe of the Lombards") is a short, 7th-century AD Latin account offering a founding myth of the...
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    The Origo gentis Romanae ("origin of the Roman people") is a short historiographic literary compilation. It narrates the origins of the Roman people, beginning...
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    replacement of the first element with the genitive of Freyja. The 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum, and Paul the Deacon's 8th-century Historia Langobardorum...
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    documented the Croats in historical sources and legends, and had their own origo gentis. In the late-6th and early-7th centuries, some of the Croats migrated...
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    Lombards. As his primary sources, Paul used the document called the Origo gentis Langobardorum, the Liber pontificalis, the lost history of Secundus of...
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    origins, however, is the seventh-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum (Origin of the Lombard People). The Origo Gentis Langobardorum tells the story of a small...
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    Origo Gentis Langobardorum and the 8th-century Historia Langobardorum of Paul the Deacon. The earliest kings (the pre-Lethings) listed in the Origo are...
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  • Getica has been categorized among the most important examples of the origo gentis (origin of a people) genre of literature as understood for example by...
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    account on "native" Wendish accounts. Fredegar records the story of the origo gentis (origin of the people) of the Wends. The Wends were Slavs, but Samo was...
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    jötunn Vafþrúðnir engaging in a deadly game of wits. The 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum, and Paul the Deacon's 8th-century Historia Langobardorum...
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  • over time became identified with Faunus, and the unknown author of the Origo gentis romanae notes that many sources said that Faunus was the same as Silvanus...
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    straightforward stories, whereas others, such as the author of the 4th-century AD Origo gentis Romanae, leave the contradictions open. Though it is well-established...
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    Ascanius. Perhaps an indigenous origin of the name is suggested by the De Origo Gentis Romanae of Aurelius Victor, in which Iulus and Ascanius are identical...
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    and Godan (cognate with Old Norse Óðinn). Attested in the 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum and the 8th-century Historia Langobardorum from the Italian...
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    translated by Rev. John Selby Watson 1853 Sextus Aurelius Victor, De Origo Gentis Romanae (attributed). Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia...
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    VI, 24-26 e 52. Jarnut (1995), pp. 48–50. or twelve years, according Origo gentis Langobardorum and Chronicle of Fredegar. Jarnut (1995), pp. 46–48. Jarnut...
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    authors: Some of the gods of the Lombards are described in the 7th-century Origo gentis Langobardorum ("Origin of the Lombard People"), while a small amount...
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    author, mentions them and speaks of their fall. The seventh-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum mentions a king of the Thuringii, Fisud, as a contemporary...
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    kings Assi and Ambri, attested in Paul the Deacon's 7th century AD work Origo Gentis Langobardorum. There, the two ask the god Godan (Odin) for victory. The...
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  • on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2020. Wolfram, Herwig (2004). "Origo Gentis: The Literature of Germanic Origins". In Murdoch, Brian; Read, Malcolm...
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  • Camerium"). Diodorus, vii. ap. Euseb. Arm., p. 185. Aurelius Victor, De Origo Gentis Romanae, 17. Dionysius, ii. 50. Livy, i. 38. Virgil, Aeneid, x. 562,...
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  • that the Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani is based in part on the Origo gentis langobardorum, a position supported by the Chronicon's initial editor...
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  • Family tree of the Lombard kings, Wacho was an ancestor of many later Lombard dynasties Origo Gentis Langobardorum Origo Gentis Langobardorum v t e v t e...
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    has Sceafa Longbeardum, so naming Sceafa as ruler of the Lombards. In Origo Gentis Langobardorum the Lombards' origins are traced to an "island" in the...
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    fiction, just like the Trojan origin of the French or any of the other origo gentis theories fabricated at much the same time. The Magyars in fact originated...
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    of the human race. Among Paul's sources were the document called the Origo gentis Langobardorum, the Liber pontificalis, the lost history of Secundus of...
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    Paulus, s. v. Favii. Ovid, Fasti, ii. 361f, 375f. Aurelius Victor, De Origo Gentis Romanae, 22. Plutarch, "The Life of Romulus", 22. Valerius Maximus, ii...
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    Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.59 Aurelius Victor, Origo Gentis Romanae 9 Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles...
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