Germanic warrior

The warrior on the left is from the Urnfield Culture which was a Bronze Age group which were the ancestors of both Celts and Germanic peoples of Central and Western Europe also known as Hallstatt A and proto-Celts. Illustration is by Angus McBride.

A Germanic warrior of the Suebi

EARLY GERMANIC WARRIORS of the Pre-Roman Iron Age (6th century BC – 1st century BC), known by archaeologists as the Jastorf culture, which followed the Nordic Bronze Age and preceded the Roman Iron Age (called this way because of the introduction of Roman influences and imported Roman objects among the Germanic tribes from the 1st century onwards). During the Pre-Roman Iron Age, Celtic influences from the La Tène culture of central and western Europe reached northern Europe. These are the…

The attire and accoutrements of an Iron Age warrior from continental Germania 3rd - 1st c. AD Iron was 'scarce' in Germania according to Tacitus, and thus the peasant levy fought with cudgels, rocks, spears, and axes. The warrior depicted has a sword and thus would be equivalent to the knightly class that evolved later. By the time of the Frankish kingdoms (5th c. on), the Germanic regions possibly had the greatest iron/steel output in the world at that time.

Visigoth warrior

THEODORIC I, KING OF THE VISIGOTHS (390-451 AD), who made an alliance with the Roman general Flavius Aetius to stop the advance of Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, where Theodoric was killed. Theoderic was born in the Balkans near

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