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

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

More than 1, 000 Migration Period bracteates of type A -, B -, C -, D -, and F are known in total ( Heizmann & Axboe 2011 ).

The connection would be that Vendel is the original homeland of the Vandals prior to the Migration Period, and retains their tribal name as a toponym.

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 ).

Vendel era sword from ValsgärdeIn Swedish prehistory, the Vendel era ( 550-793 ) is the name given to a part of the Germanic Iron Age ( or, more generally, the Migration Period ).

Sourashtra Vijayaaptham denotes the era of Sourashtra Migration.

* Hercules ' Club ( amulet ), a Roman and Migration era artefact type.

The narrative spans from the Migration Period (" Dark Ages "), when the Germanic tribes fought incessantly among themselves for territory ; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne (" Draco the Great ") and conflicts with Viking raiders (" porpoises "); through the Renaissance ( Erasmus ); and up to the modern era with motor cars ; and even into a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything begins again in an endless cycle.

Black sharecroppers and laborers began heading North in large numbers in the era of World War I, a Great Migration that continued for the rest of the century, as they sought higher wages and much more favorable political conditions.

A depiction on a Migration Period ( 5th century ) metal die from Öland, Sweden, shows a warrior with a helmet adorned with two snakes or dragons, arranged in a manner similar to horns.

Data was also collected from an identical survey returned by one other non-governmental organization as well as from research from websites run by JRS-Europe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Amnesty International-Netherlands, the Swedish Migration Board, Detention Watch Network and UNHCR.

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 Migration Period Germanic gold bracteate featuring a depiction of a bird, horse, and stylized head wearing a Suebian knot sometimes theorized to represent Germanic god Wōden and what would later become Sleipnir and Hugin and Munin | Hugin or Munin in Germanic mythology, later attested in the form of Norse mythology.