Portal:Ancient Germanic culture/Did you know

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... that Pope Boniface II (papacy 530 to 532) was an Ostrogoth?

... that Arminius, the Cheruscan warrior who successfully united several Germanic tribes (Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti , Bructeri , Chauci and Sicambri) to fight against and eventually defeat three Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, had been trained as a Roman military commander and enjoyed Roman citizenship?

... that the parapets of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul are known to contain two Viking age runic inscriptions?

... that, according to Tacitus, Germanic people were piously monogamous, and that an adulteress was driven from her home by her husband wielding a whip?