Meanings of northern barbarians in English

The northern barbarians are accused of an exterminating hostility to learning.

Alluding to the destruction of Rome by the northern barbarians.

The northern barbarians trod its civilisation underfoot, and Europe passed into the Dark Ages.

Why were the northern barbarians more formidable than the Goths?

Will the threatened invasion of northern barbarians have taken place?

There was a Roman emperor of the name, busy battling northern barbarians, but never mind him.

Of greater moment were the efforts made to stir up the northern barbarians and the Hellenes to rebellion against Rome.

Such was the state of our country when, in the ninth century, began the last great migration of the northern barbarians.

Such was the state of our country when, in the 9th century, began the last great migration of the northern barbarians.

Out of the sea of the commotions arising from the incursions of the northern barbarians, by whom the Roman empire was dismembered.

In short, at that period was introduced the denomination of northern barbarians which has since been so generally applied to the Russians.

I have come all the way with the Progress, and hard work it has been negotiating with these northern barbarians.' He laughed contemptuously.

He might have stood for one of those northern barbarians whom the Romans loved to pit against their native champions in the arena.

Since the days of Marius and of Julius Caesar not a century had passed without witnessing some dangerous movement of the northern barbarians.

It came into Rome through Greek channels and was originally merely the national adjective applied to a tribe of northern barbarians.]

Nevertheless, the declamations of the French at the vandalism of the northern barbarians met with assent and sympathy from most of the foreign Powers.