west germans [irminones]
appearance: c. -500
dispersal: by 250
ascendancy: south germans[1]
these were the germans around the rhine and into modern 'germany'. irminone is probably read as 'hermanone', ie. those who worship hermes because hermes was identified with odin and these tribes worshipped odin. or, at least, the angles and saxons did. there are some guesses that will need to be further researched.
descendancy: frisians[1]
descendancy: angles[4]
descendancy: saxons[1]
descendancy: cherusci [1]
descendancy: franks [1]
descendancy: chatti [1]
descendancy: suevi[1]
descendancy: hermanduri[1]
descendancy: merovingians[5]
[1]: the role of migration in the history of the eurasian steppe, andrew bell-fialkoff, 2000
[2]: heimskringla, snorri sturlson, c. 1200
[3]: the germanic invasions, lucien musset, 1965
[4]: germania, tacitus, c. 100
[5]: geography, ptolemy, c. 150?
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