Some, with the licence due antiquity, declare the existence of further sons of the god, and additional tribal appellations, the Marsi, Gambrivii, Suebi, and Vandilii, and that these are the true and ancient names. To him they assign a son Mannus, the origin of their race, and to him in turn three sons, the founders, from whose names the tribes nearest the ocean derive their appellation of Ingaevones, those in the centre that of Herminones, and the rest that of Istaevones. Their traditional chants, the only kind of record or history they possess, celebrate a god, Tuisto, born of the earth. Moreover, even ignoring the dangers of fearful unknown seas, who would leave Asia Minor, Africa or Italy to seek out Germany, a wild land with a harsh climate, dismal in aspect and culture unless it is one’s own homeland? Holbrooke (p106, 1882)Īs for the Germans themselves, I believe them to be indigenous and only minimally diluted through immigration by, or alliance with, other races, since those who have previously sought to change their homeland have arrived in ships and not by land, while the vast ocean beyond, and at the opposite end of the earth, so to speak, from us, is rarely visited by vessels from our world. The Danube falling gently and gradually from the ridge of Mount Abnoba ( the heights of the Black Forest) visits further peoples, until it flows, through six of its outlets, into the Black Sea: its seventh mouth being lost in the marshes. The Rhine, rising from the precipitous and inaccessible heights of the Raetian Alps, after flowing in a slightly westerly direction, joins the North Sea. Germany, in its entirety, is separated from the Gauls, Raetians, and Pannonians by the Rhine and the Danube and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mountain ranges and mutual distrust: the remainder being bordered by the ocean, which washes broad peninsulas and islands of wide extent, various of whose peoples and leaders are only recently known to us, and whom warfare has revealed. Section 46: The Peucini, Venethi, and Fenni.Section 43: The Marsigni, Luigi and others.Section 42: The Marcomani, Naristi and Quadi.Section 34: The Dulgubnii, Chasuarii, and Frisii.Section 33: The Bructeri, Chamavi and Angrivarii.Section 31: The Chatti – military customs.Section 30: The Chatti – military capabilities.Section 28: Migrations of the Germans and Gauls.Section 14: Their eagerness for warfare.Section 9: Worship of Mercury, Mars, Isis and Hercules.Section 4: The German physique and nature.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2015 All Rights Reserved The Arts and Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers - Gerard Baldwin Brown (p204, 1910)
0 kommentar(er)
