Chauci
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The Chauci were an ancient Germanic tribe living in the low-lying region between the Rivers Ems and Elbe, on both sides of the Weser and ranging as far inland as the upper Weser. Along the coast they
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Reconstruction of a fluvial boat of the Classis Germanica (Rhine flotilla) in the first century AD.
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Saxons
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The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany
Chauci
…Their ultimate origins are not well understood. In the Germanic pre-Migration Period (i.e., before c. 300 AD) the Chauci and the related Frisians, Saxons, and Angles inhabited the Continental European coast from the Zuyder Zee to south Jutland. All of these peoples shared a common material culture, and…
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The later stem duchy of Saxony (c. 1000 AD), which was based in the Saxons' traditional homeland bounded by the rivers Ems, Eider and Elbe
The Weser bones, 400–450 CE, were found on the lower Weser and are inscribed with images and Runes in a dialect probably ancestral to Old Saxon; individual bones show men attacking bulls and a Roman trading ship. The inscriptions may be curses.