Germanic peoples. The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did not necessarily clearly differentiate between warfare and...

Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...

produced by continental Germanic societies like the Franks and Goths, or later Viking sources. As Underwood noted, "Warfare in the Anglo-Saxon period...

Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as...

comitatus was an armed escort or retinue, especially in the context of Germanic warrior culture for a warband tied to a leader by an oath of fealty. The...

The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle...

and farmers from the shires who would accompany their lords. The Germanic rulers in early medieval Britain relied upon the infantry supplied by a regional...

or Germanic bodyguard was a personal, imperial guards unit for the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (30 BC – AD 68) composed of Germanic soldiers...

The Goths, Gepids, Vandals, and Burgundians were East Germanic groups who appear in Roman records in late antiquity. At times these groups warred against...

they were undoubtedly some form of standing mercenary force. For this Germanic tradition the German generic term Gefolgschaft 'body of followers' is also...