Runes are the characters of the alphabet of the early Germanic peoples.

The Germanic people were defeated in a great battle A.D. 179.

The Germanic people fear God much more than the Latin people.

Franks, a Germanic people on the Rhine river, who afterward founded the French monarchy.

The Frankish conquests differed in two important respects from those of the other Germanic peoples.

Charlemagne's conquests were not confined to Germanic peoples.

What put these Germanic peoples on going South?

The Welsh are a Celtic people, having no relationship with the English, who are a Germanic people.

All this changes when the ancient world passes away and the Germanic peoples come upon the scene.

The third century saw the southward movement of the Germanic peoples, who took the place of the Celts.

Considered as peoples simply, the Greeks or Romans were scarcely less capable of development than the Germanic peoples.

The East Frankish kingdom of Louis, inhabited almost entirely by Germanic peoples, was to develop into modern Germany.

Originally Celtic, the population was modified during the Roman period by the arrival of a Germanic people, the Triboci.

Roman Catholicism not only spread to Celtic and Germanic peoples, but it also gained a foothold among the Slavs.

After these, you will recall, came a number of Danes, another Germanic people, who settled the east coast of England.

The interior and the north coast, on the other hand, were filled chiefly by Indo- Germanic peoples most nearly cognate to the Iranian.