Burning Bridges
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mondblut said:GlobalExplorer said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of ... f_Burgundy
And then follow down the links. No, not the WWW ones. There is a plenty of sources on both Aetius and Merovingian kings, which naturally involve Burgundian kingdom throughout its whole short lifespan. That which was prior to their arrival on the orbit of civilized world is largely speculative, yes, but that's antiquity, not dark ages.
that's some quality link there.
However I was referring to a specific time and and the historic events that are told in the Nibelungenlied. It's a good example for how a lot history of the 5th-8th century got lost, or shrouded in mystery.
other examples are King Arthur, Beowulf, and so on.
From the colonization, yes, but probably not much from the timeframe 5-8th century.
Wends are my ancestory from the fathers side. I know not much, they were fishermen and lived a simple peaceful life in round wood houses, on glades. They were described by the Germans as good-natured and peaceful (the reason for their unspectacular assimilation). Seems they did not leave a big lot impression on history. But I am convinced today they make up a large part of the gene pool of East Germany. I know people with East-Prussian roots who looked and behaved very familiar, and I believe we are all descendants of those same north western slavs.
I also think this field is a treasure trove less for strategy games and for RPGs. Here is for example something about Wendish mythology: http://slavialand.org/slavicgods.htm I find it quite amazing that 1000 years ago there were people in our forest worshipping and sacrificizing to those gods.
If that is interesting to you, the topic is covered very well in Erik Hildinger: Warriors Of The Steppe: A Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.c. To 1700 A.d.
Hildinger believes that the Huns were simply assimilated. But again, it's not possible to say what exactly happened, for there are no definite sources.
However, Huns are definitely not connected to Hungary, that's a misnomer.
Though I think the design of Great Invasions really had the period down right with the constant waves of tribes that would sweep over Europe then be swiftly replaced by another and another. The 'aging' system in GI is a good abstraction to show how difficult it was for nomadic marauders to try and survive as formal settled 'nations'. Rome for example can hold off this 'aging' for a time as it's a rich, established nation, centuries old. The irony for these migratory barbarians is that the very act of changing from nomadic marauders to a settled group of village folk actually weakens them pretty fatally in the long run. They become targets; a collection of weak, poor villages with no real history to tie them to the land they occupy, and thus their 'aging' is much more rapid as they lack the resources to establish themselves more permanently in the face of other marauders waiting to take their place. Only here and there towards the end of the migration period did these tribes have the breathing room needed to set down roots. For the Franks, being an established Germanic nation was an extra benefit in the move to establish themselves more permanently, but they survive more as Dutch and less as French who took the name more than the ethnicity of the Franks.
