Medieval German stories
Monk writing a book, seated on a wyvern (North Germany, ca. 1150 AD now in Metropolitan Museum, NYC) The earliest stories of German and Scandinavian literature probably come from even [...]
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Hildebrandsleid – a tragic story
Pictish battle (Aberlemno, Scotland, ca. 700 AD) (not really the Hildebrandsleid) Who wrote this story? The story of Hildebrand is one of the earliest stories written in German. Nobody knows [...]
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Where did the Visigoths come from?
Danube river The Visigoths, like other German peoples, were originally Indo-European. Their language, Gothic, was closely related to German. We first hear of them when they are living in Poland [...]
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Where did the Ostrogoths come from?
Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea The Ostrogoths, like the Visigoths, were originally Indo-European. We first hear of them when they are living in Poland around 100 BC. [...]
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Iron Age in northern Europe
Vix crater: a large bronze jar for mixing wine made in Greece and found in a rich woman's tomb in central France (ca. 500 BC) - Iron Age Europe Settlers [...]
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Stone Age in northern Europe
Danube river The first modern humans, the Cro-Magnons, probably walked into Northern Europe from Central Asia around 45,000 years ago. Some followed the fish along the Mediterranean coastline to Greece, [...]
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Who were the Illyrians?
Red arrow shows where Hallstatt is - later the center of the Illyrians ' power. Salt-mining in Central Europe About 5000 BC, not long before the end of the Stone [...]
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Bronze Age in northern Europe
Bell beakers (ca. 2000 BC) The Yamnaya invade Europe About 3000 BC, a new wave of Central Asian people migrated west into northern Europe; these were the Indo-Europeans. We also [...]
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Northern European food history
Northern Europeans ate a lot of ham Food is one of the most important ways that people can show what group they belong to: we eat this kind of food, [...]
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Early European environment: northern Europe
Black Forest in Northern Europe: the early European environment had a lot of forests like this one. Not so different from Central Asia When people first arrived in northern Europe [...]
