what does /his/ think of the ancient Germanic people?

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They're cool.

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from Europa Barbarorum 2

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>>2586066
it really annoys me that the average person probably thinks they looked like this. the history channel doesn't help with their crude depictions of them.

>>2586064
Great ancestor of the modern state trooper.

>>2585856
Was there ever a unified Germanic people?

>>2586100
A few tribes like the Suebi, Semnones and the Langobards formed confederations.

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>Half-Italian, family's from Naples
>Half-German, family's from Hamburg
Stuff like Teutoburg gives me weird vibes.

Suebian Knots are fukin sexy

>>2586179
Next big male hair trend (along with Norman backshaves)

You heard it here, first.

>>2585856
Destroyers of culture and Europe. Some things never change.

They are lame.

>>2586486
yet simultaneously preservers of it when they converted

>>2585856
The most overrated tribal people on earth after the Native Americans

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literally my ancestors

They were /fa/ af. Not quite Scythian tier, but still.

>>2585856
they wuz everything

>>2586075

the depiction of germanic people in the rise of the barbarians history channel documentary. And everybody noticed the black hannibal but nobody seemed to notice they used middle eastern (they look like turks) actors for most of the germanic characters

>>2586111

those were more like nations made up of many tribes, or tribal confederations

>>2586150
Don't worry, terroni don't have anything to do with the Romans of central Italy. Your ancestors were busy getting engulfed by a volcano and being irrelevant later.

The fuck is the difference between these germans and celts?

>>2588689
Kinda just language desu. Obviously there was cultural differences, but if you're a Roman, they are all dirty barbarians, Germanics were just worse at paying taxes

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>>2586126

>>2585856
I'm studying their culture pretty fiercely, in college and independently.
I want to get as clear a picture as I can of the Germanic Tribes specifically near the Danube's source in the pre-Roman era. Tangentially related, I'm also interested in the Hallstatt culture, and the Western Linear Pottery Culture. In general I hope to gather as much information on broader European mythology as I can.

I also want to learn linguistics, proto-celtic, proto-germanic, old saxon, and old norse. Maybe throw in attic greek and early latin. They're tangential to my interest, but I'd love to know them.

This stuff fascinates me because it's so mysterious. All we have left of the broader norse-germanic and celtic cultures are a few epics and a handful of monuments. They once dominated almost all of europe, and they just faded away. I do a lot of creative writing, so I want to see if I can do something with those broken pieces, and maybe rekindle some interest in the misty past of pre-christian europe. Tolkien, in my opinion, really overshadowed all this neat mythology, and while that's prevented it from being raped by popular culture, it's still sad to see it rot out of disinterest.

Why did they hate civilization so much?

>>2586100
No single group, but the Vandals and Goths were actually federations of smaller tribes.

>>2586829
The History Channel has been dead to me for over a decade.

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>>2586829
They probably hired actual german actors.

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>>2586514
The fuck you say paleface?

>>2590655
Because whoever showed up to bring it simultaneously tried to destroy their race and culture.

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This thread is dirty

>>2586829
There are many native Germans with dark brown hair.

>>2591896

whats your point? most germans are dark haired afaik. These were not native germans with brown hair. They were turks or some other middle eastern ethnicity. No native germans look like that

Plus the original germanic tribes were mostly fairer haired, most of the dark hair and eyes in germany come from the southern tribes that were not germanic at the time of arminius, or from slavs or hungarians that migrated in the middle ages

>>2586514
Never thought Native amercians where overrated. Unless your talking about Aztecs Mayans and Incas.

shit

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>>2586083
what did they mean by this
is this actually a historically accurate axe head or just the artist messing about?

>>2590684
>ignore the 20 something white people in the background