1) Franks. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Franks, group of Germanic tribes. By the 3d cent. A.D., they were settled along the lower and middle Rhine. The two major divisions were the Salian Franks in the...
2) Woden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Germanic religion and mythology, the supreme god. His cult, although widespread among the Germanic tribes, was sometimes subordinated to that of his son Thor. With...
3) Norse. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...form of Norse known as Old Norse. Now extinct, Old Norse was the language spoken by the Germanic tribes living in Scandinavia before A.D. 1000. It was first written...
4) soap. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...or oil. In the 1st cent. A.D., Pliny described a soap of tallow and wood ashes used by Germanic tribes to brighten their hair. A soap factory and bars of scented...
5) Germanic religion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...can we know whether a ritual or legend peculiar to one Germanic tribe was common to all Germanic tribes. 1Conversion of the Germans to Christianity began as early...
6) Tacitus, Roman historian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(along with the earlier account of Julius Caesar) the principal written material on the Germanic tribes. Archaeology bears out the accuracy of Tacitus, but the work...
7) Moravia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...been the homeland of the Czechs, a branch of the Western Slavs, since they displaced the Germanic tribes that occupied the region from the 1st to the 5th cent. A.D....
8) Burgundy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...center. In the 4th cent. Roman power dissolved, and the country was invaded by Germanic tribes. It was finally conquered (c.480) by the Burgundii, a tribe from Savoy....
9) Celt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...from the Celts. By the 4th cent. B.C. they could no longer withstand the encroaching Germanic tribes, and they lost most of their holdings in the north and in W Germany....
10) civil law. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...most of Europe and the Middle East was to some extent supplanted by Germanic laws when Germanic tribes carried out their great conquests. The principle of personal...
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