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Germanic Culture
History 126Dr. Anita Fisher
Why Germans Started Moving
•Fascination with Roman civilization
•Need for more land, food or booty
•Roman frontier offered jobs•Natural curiosity of man •Romans invited some tribes to
help against other tribes•Movement of Huns
German Tribes
•Visigoths = West Goths•Vandals•Lombards•Ostrogoths = East Goths•Burgundians•Angles, Saxons•Merovingians
Hunsin
Combat
Huns Partying
Goths
Hun Recurve Bow
Huns
AttilatheHun
Attila
Attilathe Hun
Alaric
Visogothic king
Theodoric
Theodoric's tomb
Visigothic
Ostrogothic Helmet
SaxonShort Fort
Glastonbury Tor
Tintagel
King Arthur Burial Site
Lombards
King & Queen of Lombards
Ratchis King of
Lombards
Theudelinda Queen
ofLombards
Lombard Broach
Lombard Bracelet
Brunhilda & Fredegunde
Brunhilda Opera
Death of Brunhild
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Ostrogothic
necklace
Merovingian Illuminated Manuscript
Vandal Broach
Salian Franks
Baptisim of King Clovis
Wergeld
•Each person had worth
•Based on status & gender
•To prevent blood feuds
Proving Guilt & Innocence
•Oath-helpers’ testimony
•Ordeals by– Hot water– Hot iron– By fire– Cold water