Following the completion of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, containing nearly 5,000 entries on the archaeology, history and philology of North and Central Europe from the first millennium BC to the first millennium AD, two volumes of indices to this remarkable work are presented here. Apart from indices of authors and key words, as well as selected terms, there is also a systematic index arranged by subject and historical context, thus facilitating access via simple and complex key words and their thematic relationships within the lexicon.

The large neighbouring tribes of the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, who lived between the Alps and the River Elbe from the fifth to eighth centuries, are the focus of this book. Using a variety of different sources drawn from the fields of archaeology, history, linguistics and religion, the contributions discuss how an ethnos, a gens, or a tribe, such as the Baiuvarii or Thuringi, might appear in the written and archaeological evidence. For the Thuringi tribal traditions started around the year 400 or even earlier, while the Baiuvarii experienced a much later ethnogenesis from both immigrants and a...