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germanic tribes
during the third and fourth centuries, there were large migrations of land-hungry germans southward and westward onto the rhine-danube frontier. The basic germanic political structure was the tribe, headed by a chief who was elected for his ability as a war leader. It was these tribes that resulted in rome's losing control of the great frontier. The roman and germanic cultures greatly clashed. The germanic religion was polytheistic, their society was a warrior aristocracy, and finally their societal structure was a mobile one. By 370 a.d., the tribe had become nations led by warrior kings. It was at this time that the huns swept out of central asia westward until they encountered two germanic nations of visigoths and ostrogoths. This was the spark of many years of invasions and warfare that provoked the downfall of the roman-controlled frontier. The following information describes some of the germanic tribes such as franks, ostrogoths, visigoths, burgundians, angles, saxons,ostrogoths, vandals and lombards.
Scandinavians
the scandinavians (usually termed norsemen in pre-12th century contexts), are agermanic ethnic group, inhabiting scandinavia, who speak the scandinavian languages. The group includes danes, norwegians and swedes, and additionally the descendants of norse settlers such as the icelandic and faroese people. A scandinavian minority is also found in finland, and descendants of scandinavians are found in large numbers in the united states (which has the largest scandinavian population worldwide). Until the 9th century, the norse people lived in small petty kingdoms and chiefdoms, which were then unified into the three kingdoms known asdenmark, norway and sweden. Formerly adherents of norse mythology, a subset ofgermanic paganism, christianity was adopted between the 8th and the 12th centuries.
The scandinavian countries share a mutually intelligible dialect continuum and close cultural and historical bonds. The faroese and icelandic languages are mutually intelligible to some extent with one another as well as with the old norse language and some western norwegian dialects (nynorsk