Category: Migration Period

After the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476, with the beginning of the Migration Period, Julius Nepos shortly ruled his diminished domain from the Diocletian palace after his 476 flight from Italy.

The Migration Period relocations, which included several phases, are just one set of many in history.

The first phase Migration Period displacement from between CE 300 and 500 included relocation of the Goths ( Ostrogoths and Visigoths ), Vandals, Franks, various other Germanic people ( Burgundians, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Varangians and Normans ), Alans and numerous Slavic tribes.

These two tribes were among the Germanic peoples who clashed with the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period.

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The unoccupied part of present Germany was invaded by the Huns at the end of the 4th century and led to the beginning of the Migration Period.

These stories all portray Migration Period events from a millennium earlier.

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Migration Period golden bracteates, Vendel era helmet plates, a pair of identical Germanic Iron Age bird-shaped brooches, Viking Age objects depicting a moustached man wearing a helmet, and a portion of the 10th or 11th century Thorwald's Cross may depict Odin with one of the ravens.

An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various Migration Period bracteates.

It has been suggested that several Migration Period imitation medallions and bracteates feature depictions of Hel.

" However, Simek also cites Hel as possibly appearing as one of three figures appearing together on Migration Period B-bracteates.

The so-called Migration Period saw Indo-Iranian languages disappear from Eastern Europe, apart from the ancestors of Ossetian in the Caucasus, with the arrival of the Turkic-speaking Pechenegs and others by the eighth century AD.

Around AD 700 Slavic peoples started coming into the eastern parts of Holstein which had previously been settled by Germanic inhabitants and were then evacuated in the course of the Migration Period.

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These nomadic tribes were among the Germanic peoples who spread through the late Roman Empire during Late Antiquity or the Migration Period.

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Most of them left during the Migration Period, heading towards Spain, Italy and France, leaving the area relatively deserted.

During the Migration Period, the Slavic tribe of the Carantanians migrated into the Alps in the wake of the expansion of their Avar overlords during the 7th century, mixed with the Celto-Romanic population, and established the realm of Carantania, which covered much of eastern and central Austrian territory.

In classical antiquity, the Migration Period and the Middle Ages, they were normally constructed of poplar, lime or another split-resistant timber — covered in some instances with leather and / or reinforced with a metal boss, rim or banding — and carried by foot soldiers, knights and cavalry.

In the first millennium AD, Slavic settlers are likely to have been in contact with other ethnic groups who moved across the East European Plain during the Migration Period.

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The style became important in Migration Period metalwork, mainly Animal style jewellery, where the faceted surfaces created caught the light to give a glinting appearance.

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There they assimilated the remaining Germanic population that had not left the area in the Migration period.

In the course of the Migration Period, Slavic tribes entered the region of Plön during the early 7th century following the withdrawal of the original Germanic population.

Obvious parallels with Germanic Migration Period art are rather limited.

Ultimately stemming from Proto-Indo-European religion, Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjölnir, were worn in defiance and Norse pagan personal names containing the name of the god bear witness to his popularity.

The first recorded instance of the name of the god appears in the Migration Period, where a piece of jewelry ( a fibula ), the Nordendorf fibula, dating from the 7th century AD and found in Bavaria, bears an Elder Futhark inscription that contains the name " Þonar ", i. e. " Donar ", the southern Germanic form of the god's name.

The pronunciation, the vocabulary and the syntax of Low Latin were modified step by step by the Germanic tribe of the Franks and others as their settlements in the Empire were accepted by the Romans, or forced upon them, and finally as they conquered portions of Roman Gaul that are now France and Belgium during the Migration Period.

The page illustrated at left has animal interlace around the sides that is clearly drawn from Germanic Migration Period Animal Style II, as found for example in the Anglo-Saxon jewellery at Sutton Hoo.

Migration Period art describes the art of the " barbarian " Germanic and Eastern-European peoples who were on the move, and then settling within the former Roman Empire, during the Migration Period from about 300-700 ; the blanket term covers early Anglo-Saxon art, Visigothic art, Norse art, Merovingian art, all of which made use of the animal style, which by this period had reached a much more abstracted form than in earlier Scythian art or La Tène style.

The style saw a fusion between the traditions of Celtic art, the Germanic Migration period art of the Anglo-Saxons and the Christian forms of the book, high crosses and liturgical metalwork.

The languages of Germanic peoples gave rise to the English language ( the Angles, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes and possibly the Franks, who traded, fought with and lived alongside the Latin-speaking peoples of the Roman Empire in the centuries-long process of the Germanic peoples ' expansion into Western Europe during the Migration Period ).

Ligatures figure prominently in many historical scripts, notably the Brahmic abugidas, or the bind rune of the Migration Period Germanic runic inscriptions.

During the Migration Period, the area was settled by different Germanic tribes and the Huns.

During the Migration Period, many Germanic peoples began migrating towards the Roman frontier.

Irmin might also have been an epithet of the god Ziu ( Tyr ) in early Germanic times, only later transferred to Odin, as certain scholars ascribe to the idea that Odin replaced Tyr as the chief Germanic deity at the onset of the Migration Period.

A bracteate ( from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal ) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age ( including the Vendel era in Sweden ).

Scholars have theorized that the Vanir may be connected to small pieces of gold foil, gullgubber, found in Scandinavia at some building sites from the Migration Period to the Viking Age and occasionally in graves, have asked whether the Vanir originally represented pre-Indo-European deities or Indo-European fertility gods, and have theorized a form of the gods as venerated by the pagan Anglo-Saxons.

A leafy bough between them, two figures embrace on a small piece of gold foil dating from the Migration Period to the early Viking Age

Small pieces of gold foil decorated with pictures of figures dating from the Migration Period into the early Viking Age ( known as gullgubber ) have been discovered in various locations in Scandinavia, in one case almost 2, 500.

Thomsen also wrote one of the first systematic treatises on gold bracteates of the Migration period.

The 536 event and ensuing famine has been suggested as an explanation for the sacrifice, by depositing hoards, of large amounts of gold by Scandinavian elites at the end of the Migration Period, possibly to appease the angry gods and get the sunlight back.

The bracteate is a type of thin gold medal, usually plain on the reverse, found in Northern Europe from the so called " Dark Ages " or Migration Period.

File: Viking gold necklace. jpg | A Migration Period golden collar from the slopes of the table mountain Ålleberg, Falbygden.

In 1844, within Wolfsheim ’ s limits, an important gold find was made at a princely grave from the time of the Migration Period ( Völkerwanderung ).