• Thumbnail for Early Germanic culture
    Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...
    124 KB (15,692 words) - 16:31, 7 May 2024
  • the Early Middle Ages. The calendars were an element of early Germanic culture. The Germanic peoples had names for the months that varied by region and...
    39 KB (3,177 words) - 04:35, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Germanic law
    Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as...
    47 KB (5,886 words) - 21:18, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rings in early Germanic cultures
    position is held by rings in early Germanic cultures, appearing both in archaeology throughout areas settled by Germanic peoples, and in textual sources...
    21 KB (2,174 words) - 07:08, 25 October 2023
  • Early Germanic Literature and Culture is a book edited by Brian O. Murdoch and Malcolm Read. The book was published by Camden House in 2004. It covers...
    5 KB (332 words) - 15:07, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Early Germanic warfare
    BCE. Wars were frequent between and within the individual Germanic peoples. The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did...
    30 KB (3,521 words) - 11:27, 16 April 2024
  • Germanic culture is a term referring to the culture of Germanic peoples, and can be used to refer to a range of time periods and nationalities, but is...
    8 KB (1,059 words) - 07:29, 3 June 2024
  • Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples in areas successively ruled by the Roman Empire and Germanic...
    5 KB (454 words) - 06:54, 6 March 2024
  • mythology, legendry, and folk beliefs of early Germanic culture. By way of the comparative method, Germanic philologists, a variety of historical linguist...
    72 KB (1,709 words) - 16:41, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proto-Germanic language
    Vistula (Oksywie culture, Przeworsk culture), Germanic speakers came into contact with early Slavic cultures, as reflected in early Germanic loans in Proto-Slavic...
    130 KB (12,145 words) - 15:04, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Germanic paganism
    Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...
    128 KB (15,973 words) - 21:50, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Germanic mythology
    Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...
    9 KB (970 words) - 16:27, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Germanic peoples
    The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages...
    163 KB (20,170 words) - 04:33, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Germanic peoples
    from the Battle Axe culture, possibly through its superimposition upon the earlier megalithic cultures of the area. The Germanic tribal societies of Scandinavia...
    91 KB (10,684 words) - 21:22, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Przeworsk culture
    Przeworsk culture also shows significant contact with the Jastorf Culture, associated with the spread of early Germanic tribes and the early Suevian peoples...
    13 KB (1,452 words) - 15:13, 13 May 2024
  • The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European...
    14 KB (1,707 words) - 09:38, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of early Germanic peoples
    The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations...
    105 KB (6,492 words) - 07:05, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hestavíg
    Hestavíg (category Early Germanic culture)
    Hestavíg was an entertainment activity during the Viking Age in the Icelandic Commonwealth (930–1262), presumably a sport consisting of a brutal and bloody...
    3 KB (318 words) - 18:01, 23 July 2023
  • Sippenhaft (category Family in early Germanic culture)
    justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle Ages, usually in the form of fines and compensations...
    14 KB (1,601 words) - 13:59, 28 May 2024
  • Press in 1998. The book uses linguistic evidence for the study of early Germanic culture and history. A paperback edition was published by Cambridge University...
    6 KB (399 words) - 05:52, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Goths
    Goths (redirect from Germanic Goths)
    Gentis: The Literature of Germanic Origins". In Murdoch, Brian; Read, Malcolm (eds.). Early Germanic Literature and Culture. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 39–54...
    173 KB (18,812 words) - 13:46, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vandals
    the Vandals spoke a Germanic language (mainly:Vandalic) and belonged to early Germanic culture, they are classified as a Germanic people by modern scholars...
    69 KB (7,708 words) - 21:10, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Archaeology of Northern Europe
    La Tène culture (Celts), contributing to the development of the Iron Age by the 4th century BC, presumably the locus of Common Germanic culture. Northern...
    23 KB (2,429 words) - 15:25, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Culture of Germany
    the Germanic tribes, the earliest evidence of Germanic culture dates to the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany and Denmark. Contact with Germanic tribes...
    62 KB (6,122 words) - 10:26, 6 June 2024
  • research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts in the earlier phases of the languages. Early modern publications...
    4 KB (356 words) - 21:40, 9 March 2024
  • Childhood in the Viking Age (category Children in early Germanic culture)
    medieval England Childhood in Scotland in the Middle Ages Childhood in early modern Scotland Sawyer, Birgit and Peter (1993). Medieval Scandinavia. Minneapolis...
    5 KB (645 words) - 01:37, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sippe
    Sippe (category Family in early Germanic culture)
    extended family" (Frisian Sibbe, Norse Sifjar). It continues a Proto-Germanic term *sebjō, which referred to a band or confederation bound by a treaty...
    2 KB (244 words) - 02:54, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norse clans
    Norse clans (category Family in early Germanic culture)
    descent of family groups. The heavy dependence on family and kindred in early Scandinavian history was the foundation of the importance clan. The Thing...
    3 KB (323 words) - 02:08, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for East Germanic languages
    peoples. East Germanic is one of the primary branches of Germanic languages, along with North Germanic and West Germanic. The only East Germanic language of...
    9 KB (917 words) - 19:51, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wielbark culture
    century AD to the 5th century AD. The Wielbark culture is associated with the Goths and related Germanic peoples, and played an important role in the Amber...
    25 KB (2,866 words) - 00:16, 25 March 2024