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Barbarzyńcy i dworzanie : Rzym a barbarzyńcy w dworskiej literaturze późnorzymskiej
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ISBN: 8388857835 9788388857836 Year: 2004 Volume: 103 Publisher: Kraków: Polskiej akademii umiejętności,

Ancient Germanic warriors : warrior styles from Trajan's column to Icelandic sagas
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ISBN: 1134384203 1280231823 9786610231829 0203475879 9780203475874 9780415311991 0415311993 0415311993 9780415486828 0415486823 9781134384150 9781134384198 9781134384204 113438419X 1134384157 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders, long-hairs, ghost warriors and horse-stabbers, and how they indicate an unbroken continuity of customs, beliefs and battle-field tactics.Ancient Germanic warriors played a decisive role in historical events from 200 BC, when Germanic culture first became identifiable, to AD 1000 when Ch

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