Northern Europe experiences mass migrations from around…
909 BCE to 819 CE
The Germanic Iron Age begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Celtic and Germanic kingdoms in Western Europe.
It is followed, in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, by the Viking Age.
During the decline of the Roman Empire, an abundance of gold flows into Scandinavia; there are excellent works in gold from this period.
Gold is used to make scabbard mountings and bracteates.
After the Western Roman Empire falls, gold becomes scarce and Scandinavians begin to make objects of gilded bronze, with decorative figures of interlacing animals.
In the EGIA, the decorations tended to be representational—the animal figures are rather faithful anatomically; in the LGIA, they will tend to be more abstract or symbolic—intricate interlaced shapes and limbs.
The LGIA in the eighth century blends into the Viking Age and the proto-historical period, with legendary or semi-legendary oral tradition recorded a few centuries later in the Gesta Danorum, heroic legend and sagas, and an incipient tradition of primary written documents in the form of runestones.
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Celts
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Germania
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Teutons
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Danes (North Germanic tribe)
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Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna)
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Suebic Kingdom of Galicia
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Burgundians, (first) Kingdom of the
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Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse
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Vandals and the Alans, Kingdom of the
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Burgundians, (second) Kingdom of the
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Kent, Kingdom of
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Francia (Merovingians)
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Soissons, (Gallo-Roman) Domain of
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Sussex, Kingdom of
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Francia (Merovingians)
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Francia (Merovingians)
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Dál Riata, or Dalriada, Scots Kingdom of
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Soissons (eventually Neustria), Frankish Kingdom of
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Wessex, English Kingdom of
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Mercia, Kingdom of
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Essex, Kingdom of
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East Angles, Kingdom of the
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Vikings
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Danes (Scandinavians)
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