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Barbarians surfing5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The Scandinavian gods Wodan and Frigga of the early Lombards looking down from the heavens to the Winnili women below, from a 1905 AD painting by Emil Doepler. In the process, the Lombards became a major thorn in the side of the Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire and its capital Constantinople. One of the smaller tribes from the Migration Period, the Lombards fought their way across Europe before settling on the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, where they would establish a powerful kingdom that grew rapidly. From the seafaring Vikings to the militaristic Saxons, and all the way to the Cherusci and their allies who stood in the path of Rome, the Germanic peoples were many and always proud. ![]() From their oldest roots, they developed into iconic ethnic groups that were instrumental in the future of the world as we know it. ![]() As the Roman Empire crumbled, the history of the ancient world was undoubtedly marked and shaped by more than one powerful Germanic tribe. ![]()
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