* A member of the medieval Germanic people, the Franks

Frigg is the most prominent female member of the Aesir faction of the Germanic gods, and often identified as the spouse of the chief god, * Wōdanaz ( Woden, Odin ).

He is an associate professor with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and joint faculty member at the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

** Dane, a member of the Danes ( Germanic tribe )

In 1918 Sebottendorff made contact with Walter Nauhaus, a member of the Germanenorden who headed a " Germanic study group " called the Thule Gesellschaft ( Thule Society ).

His patrilineal descent ( the principle behind membership in Germanic Royal Houses ) can be traced back through the generations so that theoretically he would be a member of the Wettin, as historically were his male-line ancestors.

In English, the term Saxon ( from French Saxon, from Proto-Germanic * sahsan, meaning ' knife ') most typically denotes a member of the confederation of ancient Germanic peoples that invaded or migrated to Sub-Roman Britain, during the Late Antiquity period ; and / or to their descendants.

Khan Kuber ( also Kouver, Kuver or Csaba ) was a Bulgar leader, son of Kubrat and a princess descended from Emperor Honorius brother of Khan Asparukh and member of the Dulo clan, who according to the Miracles of St Demetrius, in the 670s was the leader of a mixed Christian population of Bulgars, ‘ Romans ’, Slavs and Germanic people from Crimea that had been transferred to the Syrmia region in Pannonia by the Avars 60 years earlier.

In 1963, he married Tamara Pikhtivoi, a member of the Sakhalin Ainu tribe.

This later had disastrous consequences, when Kolingba was replaced by a member of a northerner tribe, Ange-Félix Patassé.

This degradation, properly speaking, included all the other punishments, for an equestrian could not be made an aerarius unless he was previously deprived of his horse, nor could a member of a rustic tribe be made an aerarius unless he was previously excluded from it.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

* " When the most wicked member of a tribe becomes its ruler, and the most worthless member of a community becomes its leader, and a man is respected through fear of the evil he may do, and leadership is given to people who are unworthy of it, expect the Day of Judgment.

Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.

Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.

When the Amin regime was collapsing, he fled to Kenya with his family, fearful that he would be seen as a collaborator ; this was more likely because he was a member of the Langi tribe, many of whom were persecuted by Amin, whereas Akii-Bua was cited by Amin as an example of a Langi who was doing well.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

In 1163, the vizier to the Fatimid caliph al-Adid, Shawar, had been driven out of Egypt by rival Dirgham, a member of the powerful Banu Ruzzaik tribe.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

Henry Francis Fynn provided medical treatment to the king after an assassination attempt from a rival tribe member hidden in a crowd ( see account of Nathaniel Isaacs ).

* Tuoba Xilu, chieftain of the Tuoba tribe and a member of the Xianbei people ( present-day Mongolia )

Captain Hutton of Port Phillip District once told Chief Protector of Aborigines George Augustus Robinson that " if a member of a tribe offend, destroy the whole.

It is a member of the wheat tribe ( Triticeae ) and is closely related to barley ( Hordeum ) and wheat ( Triticum ).

Kabila was born to a member of the Luba tribe in Baudoinville, Katanga Province, ( now Moba, Tanganyika District ) in the Belgian Congo.

Judaism does not have clergy as such, although according to the Torah there is a tribe of priests known as the Kohanim who were leaders of the religion up to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70AD when most Sadducees were wiped out ; each member of the tribe, a Kohen had priestly duties, many of which centered around the sacrificial duties, atonement and blessings of the Israelite nation.

In 1836, they signed a treaty with Texas President Sam Houston, an adopted member of the Cherokee tribe.

Once married, the man had status as an " Intermarried White ," a member of the Cherokee tribe with restricted rights ; for instance, he could not hold any tribal office.

In English, an individual may say, " I am Blackfoot " or " I am a member of the Blackfeet tribe.

On Day 19, the tribes were each told to send a tribe member to a secret location to represent their tribe ; Rob went for Rotu, while Kathy represented Maraamu.

The Bavarii were a Germanic tribe whose name emerged late in Teutonic tribal times.

The first part " baio " refers to the name of the Celtic Boii tribe, which also resolved into the regional name Bohemia ( Germanic latinised boio-hemum = home of the Boier tribe ).

The Bavarii defeated the central European Germanic Rugian tribe in 487 AD.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

Their memory also survives in the modern regional names of Bohemia ( Boiohaemum ), a mixed-language form from boio-and Proto-Germanic * haimaz, " home ": " home of the Boii ," and ' Bayern ', Bavaria, which is derived from the Germanic Baiovarii tribe ( Germ.

The Bastarnae or Basternae () were an ancient Germanic tribe, who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited the region between the eastern Carpathian mountains and the Dnieper river ( corresponding to the modern Republic of Moldova and western part of southern Ukraine ).

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

AD 5-20, says the Bastarnae are " of Germanic stock ", although he includes the non-Germanic Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, among the sub-tribes of the Bastarnae ( probably in error ).

* Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe, who first appear in history in South East Europe.

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

Most ancient sources categorize the Cimbri as a Germanic tribe, but some ancient authors include the Cimbri among the Celts.

Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland ; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J.

One traditional etymology connects it to the name of the Helveconae, a Germanic tribe mentioned in Ancient Greek and Latin sources, but the etymology or language of the tribal name is not known.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, a Germanic tribe known as the Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes.

* Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture

Franconia is named after the Franks, a Germanic tribe who conquered most of Western Europe by the middle of the 8th century.

:: This article is about the modern Frisians, for the ancient Germanic tribe also called Frisians see Frisii.

This usage is still partly present in modern English ; hence the English use of " Teutons " in reference to the Germanic peoples in general besides the specific tribe of the Teutons defeated at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae in 102 BCE.

The Goths (; ; ; ; ) were an East Germanic tribe whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe.

After their able leader Totila was killed at the Battle of Taginae, effective Ostrogothic resistance ended, and the remaining Goths were assimilated by the Lombards, another Germanic tribe, who invaded Italy and founded a Kingdom in the northern parts of the country in 567 AD.

After a 10 year gap, the Goths, along with the Heruli, another Germanic tribe from Scandinavia, raiding on 500 ships, sacked Heraclea Pontica, Cyzicus and Byzantium.

The city and seaport were occupied in September 1939 by German troops and renamed Gotenhafen after the Goths, an ancient Germanic tribe, who had lived in the area.

The Hasdingi were the southern tribes of the Vandals, an East Germanic tribe.