The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.

Wolf-related names were also common among pre-Christian Germanic warriors: Wolfhroc ( Wolf-Frock ), Wolfhetan ( Wolf Hide ), Isangrim ( Grey Mask ), Scrutolf ( Garb Wolf ), Wolfgang ( Wolf Gait ) and Wolfdregil ( Wolf Runner ).

It was then suddenly attacked by Germanic warriors armed with light swords, large lances and narrow-bladed short spears called fremae.

The Germanic warriors surrounded the entire Roman army and rained down javelins on the intruders.

Germanic warriors storm the field, Varusschlacht, 1909

However it must be taken into account that the Germanic victors would have removed the bodies of their fallen, and their practice of burying their own dead warriors ' battle gear with them must have contributed to the lack of Germanic relics.

* King Vortigern invites a number of Germanic warriors to aid him in consolidating his position in Britain according to the Historia Brittonum.

* Battle of Mediolanum: A Germanic confederation, the Alamanni ( 300, 000 warriors ), who crossed the Alps are defeated by Roman legions under Gallienus near Mediolanum ( modern Milan ).

According to Tacitus in his book Germania ( chapter 30 ), they were disciplined warriors famed for their infantry, who ( unusually for Germanic tribes ) used trenching tools and carried provisions when at war.

Ancient Germanic warriors: warrior styles from Trajan's column to Icelandic sagas, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-31199-3

For example, the booklet of the Absurd album Asgardsrei depicts the Knights Templar, the Teutonic Knights and the Waffen-SS as warriors of the " Asgardsrei ", which the bands define as a term for an alleged godly and Germanic group of warriors.

The leading contingent of the Germanic warriors, the Ambrones, foolishly attacked the Roman position without waiting for reinforcements and 30, 000 were killed.

" Germanic peoples | Germanic warriors " as depicted in Philipp Clüver's Germania Antiqua ( 1616 ).

Walhalla is a Germanic term referring to the ' hall ' where warriors would go if selected to fight during Ragnarok.

Location of DeiraDeira ( Old English: Derenrice ( Scandinavian: Deren Riket ; Germanic Deren Reich ) or Dere ) was a kingdom in Northern England which probably emerged when Anglian warriors conquered the Derwent Valley in the third quarter of the fifth century.

The groups of Germanic warriors harrying the limes during summer used the concept to full advantage, knowing that they could concentrate and supply themselves outside the limes without fear of preemptive strikes.

In some societies, warfare may be so central that the entire people ( or, more often, large parts of the male population ) may be considered warriors, for example in the Iron Age Germanic tribes and Indian clans like the Rajputs and Sikhs.

The Merovingian kings ruled by divine right and their kingship was symbolised daily by their long hair and initially by their acclamation, which was carried out by raising the king on a shield in accordance with the ancient Germanic practice of electing a war-leader at an assembly of the warriors.

The view that Amorites were fierce, tall nomads led to an idiosyncratic theory among some writers in the 19th century that they were a tribe of " Germanic " warriors who at one point dominated the Israelites.

Also, Old English beblonden meant " dyed " as ancient Germanic warriors were noted for dying their hair.

In some societies, warfare may be so central that the entire people ( or, more often, large parts of the male population ) may be considered warriors, for example in the Iron Age Germanic tribes and Indian clans like the Rajputs and Sikhs.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Roman empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117-38 ), showing the location of the Burgundiones Germanic group, then inhabiting the region between the Viadua ( Oder ) and Visula ( Vistula ) rivers ( Poland )

home ), itself a derivation from " live " (> Greek, Latin sinō ); then, the Germanic * χimbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ " farmer " (> Croatian, Serbian sebar, Russ.

Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.

The Roman empire, under Hadrian showing the location of the Gothones East Germanic group, then inhabiting the east bank of the Visula ( Vistula ) river, Poland

Clovis then recorded a succession of victories against other Germanic tribes such as the Alamanni at Tolbiac.

In the following years Julian learned how to lead and then run an army, through a series of campaigns against the Germanic tribes that had settled on both sides of the Rhine.

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.

Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.

Reigning for only ten months, Romulus was then deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer and sent to live in the Castellum Lucullanum in Campania ; afterwards he disappears from the historical record.

Uppland, where Rurik allegedly was born, was during his lifetime bordered by Norrland-the entire northern half of today's Sweden -, which then was not a part of the Northern Germanic language zone.

In 58 BC, the Helvetii tried to evade migratory pressure from Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by Julius Caesar's armies and then sent back.

From then until his Socialist period Morris's fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing.

Milan surrendered to the Franks in 774 when Charlemagne, in an utterly novel decision, took the title " King of the Lombards " as well ( before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people ).

On previous occasions, in 932 and 954 for example, there had been Hungarian incursions which had invaded the Germanic lands to the South of the Danube, and then retreated back to their native country via Lotharingia, to the West Frankish Kingdom and finally, through Italy.

Little touched by the Germanic migrations, it was part of the territory of the Alamanni in the 5th century, then the Kingdom of Burgundy from 457 to 534.

Arminius then left under the pretext of drumming up Germanic forces to support the Roman campaign, but instead led his troops, who must have been waiting in the vicinity, in attacks on surrounding Roman garrisons.

Tolkien was then already familiar with Latin, Greek, Spanish, and several ancient Germanic languages, Gothic, Old Norse and Old English.

Beginning in the second half of the 5th century, as Roman power waned, successive waves of Germanic tribes entered Provence ; first the Visigoths ( 480 ); then the Ostrogoths ; then the Burgundians ; finally, the Franks in the 6th century.

** May – Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430, 000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.

In the book Elena has an affair with Franz Liszt, becomes friends with George Sand and has a friendship with the king of a small Germanic country obviously based on Ludwig I of Bavaria, then moves to California, all documented as having happened in Montez's life.

He studied Oriental, Germanic and Slavic languages, and then served in the army before resuming his studies.