This article is about the early culture of Germanic peoples. For related subjects, see Germanic culture.
Royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala in Sweden, an important centre of early Germanic cultureArea of the Nordic Bronze Age culture, ca 1200 BC
Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorf culture that developed out of the Nordic Bronze Age. It came under significant external influence during the Migration Period, particularly from ancient Rome.
The Germanic peoples eventually overwhelmed the Western Roman Empire, which by the Middle Ages facilitated their conversion from paganism to Christianity and the abandonment of their tribal way of life. Certain traces of early Germanic culture have survived among the Germanic peoples up to the present day.
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EarlyGermanicculture was the culture of the earlyGermanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European...
the Early Middle Ages. The calendars were an element of earlyGermanicculture. The Germanic peoples had names for the months that varied by region and...
position is held by rings in earlyGermaniccultures, appearing both in archaeology throughout areas settled by Germanic peoples, and in textual sources...
Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the earlyGermanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as...
EarlyGermanic Literature and Culture is a book edited by Brian O. Murdoch and Malcolm Read. The book was published by Camden House in 2004. It covers...
Germanicculture is a term referring to the culture of Germanic peoples, and can be used to refer to a range of time periods and nationalities, but is...
BCE. Wars were frequent between and within the individual Germanic peoples. The earlyGermanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did...
into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages...
Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...
Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...
from the Battle Axe culture, possibly through its superimposition upon the earlier megalithic cultures of the area. The Germanic tribal societies of Scandinavia...
Przeworsk culture also shows significant contact with the Jastorf Culture, associated with the spread of earlyGermanic tribes and the early Suevian peoples...
The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European...
The list of earlyGermanic peoples is a register of ancient Germaniccultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations...
research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts in the earlier phases of the languages. Early modern publications...
Gentis: The Literature of Germanic Origins". In Murdoch, Brian; Read, Malcolm (eds.). EarlyGermanic Literature and Culture. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 39–54...
La Tène culture (Celts), contributing to the development of the Iron Age by the 4th century BC, presumably the locus of Common Germanicculture. Northern...
justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle Ages, usually in the form of fines and compensations...
Germanic and Slavic peoples, and inhumation is suggestive of nomadic practice, careful analysis suggests that the mixed burials were of an earlier period...
descent of family groups. The heavy dependence on family and kindred in early Scandinavian history was the foundation of the importance clan. The Thing...
extended family" (Frisian Sibbe, Norse Sifjar). It continues a Proto-Germanic term *sebjō, which referred to a band or confederation bound by a treaty...
medieval England Childhood in Scotland in the Middle Ages Childhood in early modern Scotland Sawyer, Birgit and Peter (1993). Medieval Scandinavia. Minneapolis...
the Germanic tribes, the earliest evidence of Germanicculture dates to the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany and Denmark. Contact with Germanic tribes...
specialised branch of Germanic philology. The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from around AD 150, with a potentially earlier inscription dating to...
peoples. East Germanic is one of the primary branches of Germanic languages, along with North Germanic and West Germanic. The only East Germanic language of...
Germanic heroic legend (German: germanische Heldensage) is the heroic literary tradition of the Germanic-speaking peoples, most of which originates or...
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