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Hecataeus of Miletus (!)
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The Heliand- The Heliand is a rendering of parts of the Christian bible to make it more palatable for the Saxons at the time of conversion. It has information of interest.
An English translation can be found at:
/media/mmc1/world_faiths/www.northvegr.org-relative-n/lore/heliand002/index.html
Heliand, The Saxon Bible: G. Ronald Murphy ISBN 0195073762
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Herodian (7.2.4) c. 200 CE: 'there is a lack of stones and baked bricks among them, but their forests are well wooded, and since these provide an abundance of timber, they construct and join these together and so make shelters'.
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Herodotus - The Histories trans. Aubrey de Selincourt & John Marincola. New York: Penguin, 1996: 3.115-116, 4.13-16, 4.20, 4.24-27, and 4.30-36
http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html
The Greeks continued to use the Scythian name long after the disappearance of the Northern Mesopotamian & Anatolian Scythians who were conquered and absorbed by the Iranian Suoramata. The association of the conquered with the conqueror however is common but still inaccurate. After this event there occurred such a confusion in the minds of the Greeks concerning their previous northern neighbors that they applied the term to other nomadic or equestrian people with similar outward habits, including the Saurmatians, Huns, Turks and later even Germanic tribes. The above references are to Scythians, however there is doubt as to whether in this case these were Germanic peoples.
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Hierocles: Synecdemus: names six cities and alludes to another re-taken by the eastern Roman army in Visigothic Spain.
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Hieronymus c. 410 CE: 123, 16-17; mentioned that Gaul was plundered by many people including Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Alamanns, Saxons and Heruls.
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Hildebrandslied showing characteristics (concerning motives, language,
handwriting) of Old Saxon, Old English runes, Franconian, Langobardian
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hildebrand.html
http://hub.ib.hu-berlin.de/~hab/arnd/Start.html (German)
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Hippocrates (Aer. 20-22) According to climatic theory, hot climates encouraged lustful behaviour and promiscuity, whereas cold climates resulted in sexual impotence or at least apathy.
http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/airwatpl.mb.txt
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Hirtius, Aullus believed to have written the 8th book of the (Caesar's) Gallic Wars. See Caesar, Julius.
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History of the Langobards see: Paulus Diaconus
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Homer: wrote concerning amber
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus): Carmina 4.5.26:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hor.+Carm.+4.5
and Epod. 16.7
"Who fears the Parthian or the Scythian horde,
Or the rank growth that German forests yield,
While Caesar lives? who trembles at the sword
The fierce Iberians wield?"
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Honorius, 16; 410 CE
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Horace (Carm.3.24. 17-24) portrays the Getae as paragons of sexual virtue, in contrast with the corrupt Romans.
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Husband's Message translated by Michael Alexander
from the Penguin Classics anthology: The Earliest English Poems.
Now shall I unseal myself to yourself alone
...the wood kind, waxed from saplinghood;
on me... must in foreign lands
set...
saltstreams.
In the beak of ships
I have often been
where my lord... me
among high houses; and here am come now
on board a ship.
You shall directly
know how you may think of the thorough love
my lord feels for you. I have no fear in promising
you shall find him heart-whole, honour bright.
Hwaet!
The carver of this token entreats a lady
clad in clear stones to call to mind
and hold in her wit words pledged
often between the two in early days:
then he would hand you through hall and yard
lord of his lands, and you might live together,
forge your love. A feud drove him
from this war-proud people.
That prince, glad now,
gave me his word for you: when you shall hear
in the copse at the cliff's edge the cuckoo pitch
his melancholy cry, come over sea.
You will have listened long: leave then with no notice,
let no man alive delay your going:
into the boat and out to sea,
seagull's range; southward from here
over the paths in the foam you shall find your man,
make landfall where your lord is waiting.
He does not conceive, he said to me,
that a greater happiness could be his in this world
than that all-wielding God should grant you both
days when together you may give out rings
among followers and fellows, free-handed deal
the nailed armbands. Of which he has enough,
of inlaid gold...
There lands are his, a hearth among strangers,
estate...
...of men,
although my lord here...
when the need grew strait, steered his boat out
through steep breakers, and had singlehanded
to run the deep ways, dared escape,
mingled saltstreams. The man has now
laid his sorrows, lacks no gladdeners;
he has a hoard and horses and hall-carousing
and would have everything within an earls having
had he my lady with him: if my lady will come:
if she will hold to what was sworn and sealed in your youths.
So I set together S & R twinned,
EA, W, D. The oath is named
whereby he undertakes until the end of his life
to keep the covenants of companionship
that, long ago, you delighted to repeat.
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Hydatius Chronicle; (+, commentary on text); covers 409-468: Richard W. Burgess: The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana. ISBN 0198147872.
Hydatius wrote in an obscure town in northwestern Spain in the fifth century CE, and his chronicle suffers from his extreme isolation. Nevertheless it is one of very few historical sources surviving from this crucial period. (!)
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Hyronimus: Chron. 2389: Burgundians had come to the Rhine in 370 CE from within the Germania magna (!)
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