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    Brinno was leader of the Canninefates when they joined in the Batavian rebellion at the mouth of the Rhine in AD 70. According to Tacitus, his father had...
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    failed uprising that followed, the Canninefates were led by their chieftain Brinno, the son of a chief who had faced down Caligula. The capital of the civitas...
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    instigate rebellion are not known, but the Cananefates, led by their chief Brinno, attacked several Roman forts, including Traiectum (Utrecht). With most...
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    from the Mabinogion, the probable Welsh antecedent of Geoffrey's Brennius; Brinno, chief of the Cananefates – a tribe from Germania Inferior – whose name...
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  • Records, 2007) Thrustor – Night of Fire (Black Bastola Records, 2007) Mena Brinno – Icy Muse (Dark Balance Records, 2007) sHeavy – The Machine That Won the...
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    Frisii. Things went well for the Germans at first. One of the early leaders, Brinno of the Canninefates tribe, quickly defeated a Roman force of two cohorts...
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    According to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, this piece survives and depicts Brinno raised on a shield with the Cananefates, after a similar painting by Otto...
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