Meanings of germanic tribe in English

Beyond the Alps the Gallic and Germanic tribes were in restless movement.

We learned also about the Slavs who lived to the eastward of the Germanic tribes.

Palmer did not belong to the Germanic tribe.

Carnival dates back to ancient times when the Germanic tribes celebrated it to chase away winter demons.

The Germanic tribes (the Goths, Franks, Lombards, etc.)

These opinions no doubt come from a stressing of the importance that the Germanic tribes associated with the solstice.

The conversion of the Franks provided the Roman Church with its strongest and most faithful adherents among the Germanic tribes.

Rome was engulfed in the torrent of Germanic tribes drifting down from the north before a flood of drifting Asiatics.

At an unknown date, the Germanic tribes had left their old home in Asia and had moved westward into Europe.

The Germanic tribes had no intellectual life of their own to contribute, and no intellectual tastes to be ministered unto.

Drusus is as much known for fidelity to his marriage bed as he is for his fierceness against the Germanic tribes.

In like manner, the Germanic tribes, although possessing many things in common with the Scandinavian race, differ from it in various respects.

The reason for this is that first the Romans and then the Germanic tribes conquered most of the lands where the Celts lived.

Stone had been used in the south to construct temples, arenas, palaces, and later churches, but this type of building was unknown among Germanic tribes.

The best examples, however, are to be found in the invasions of the Roman Empire by the Germanic tribes to which we have referred above.

At the close of the fourth century the Germanic tribes living nearest the frontiers had been visited by missionaries and had become converts to Christianity.