The weapon may have been a funeral offering for a fallen member of the Vandals, a Germanic tribe renowned for sacking Rome in the fifth century ... ceremony of the warrior and placed on a ...

If we accept that the figure of Arthur has a historical basis, it is generally acknowledged that he was a warrior against Germanic invaders of Britain from the fifth century onwards. Where he held ...

“The aim of this book is to rehabilitate the reputation of the Vandals, a Germanic warrior people who conquered fabulously rich Roman North Africa in the 5th century AD.” (p. vii). So begins this ...