“In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered…”, Cornelius Tacitus wrote in Germania, around year 100 c.e. The tribe Harii chose moonless nights for their attacks, and painted themselves and their equipment in black, in order to achieve a demonic appearance, and probably also because of the tactical benefits...
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Yule, Jól or Jul is the name of the ancient Germanic midwinter festival. Marking the beginning of the new year, and the celebration of the return of light and thus life itself – is probably the main theme of this festival. It was later replaced by the celebration of the birth of Christ, during the christianization of ...
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Six years after their slaughter by Germanic tribesmen, the remains of governor Varus and three Roman legions – 15 000 men – lay scattered among the brushwood and bracken of the Teutoburgian Forest. Pausing in the middle of a retaliatory campaign across the Rhine, Germanicus and his legionaries solemnly surveyed at the...
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