Nuithones
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Nuithones were one of the Nerthus-worshipping Germanic tribes mentioned by Tacitus in Germania. Schütte[1]remarks that the name is probably corrupt and suggests that the correct forms were Teutones or Euthiones (Jutes).
Variants
Origin
Jat clans
History
"There follow in order the Reudignians, and Aviones, and Angles, and Varinians, and Eudoses, and Suardones and Nuithones; all defended by rivers or forests. Nor in one of these nations does aught remarkable occur, only that they universally join in the worship of Herthum (Nerthus); that is to say, the Mother Earth."--Tacitus, Germania, 40, translated 1877 by Church and Brodribb.[2]
External links
References
- ↑ http://www.northvegr.org/lore/sagabook/n002.php
- ↑ Tacitus', Germania, 40; translation from The Agricola and Germania, A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb, trans., (London: Macmillan, 1877), pp. 87- 10, as recorded in the Medieval Sourcebook[2]