The Goths -including Gepides- started wandering from Scandinavia's Ostsee coast, to Poland, initially slow and fairly peaceful, then fast to the Danube. In 9 BC a Germanic alliance lead by the Cherusk tribe's honorary hostage, Arminius, ...See moreThe Goths -including Gepides- started wandering from Scandinavia's Ostsee coast, to Poland, initially slow and fairly peaceful, then fast to the Danube. In 9 BC a Germanic alliance lead by the Cherusk tribe's honorary hostage, Arminius, defeated Roman invasion governor Varrus's three legions in Germania, ending the dream of turning it into another Roman province. Written by
KGF Vissers
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