Caritni

The Caritni, a Latinization, or the Karitnoi in the Greek of Ptolemy's Geography (2.10), were a Germanic tribe mentioned by the Roman scholar Ptolemy generally in the region of west Bavaria. Little else is known about them.

Germanic peoples

Languages	Germanic parent language Proto-Germanic language North Germanic languages Old Norse West Germanic languages Ingvaeonic languages South Germanic Northwest Germanic East Germanic languages Germanic philology

Prehistory	Nordic Bronze Age Pre-Roman Iron Age Jastorf culture Nordwestblock Przeworsk culture Wielbark culture Oksywie culture Chernyakhov culture

Roman Iron Age	Magna Germania Germanic Wars Battle of the Teutoburg Forest Germania Irminones Ingaevones Istvaeones Chatti Marcomanni Suebi

Migration Period	Germanic Iron Age Alemanni Anglo-Saxons Angles Jutes Saxons Burgundians Dani Franks Frisii Geats Goths Visigoths Ostrogoths Vagoth Gothic War (376–382) Gotlander Lombards Normans Rus' people Scirii Suebi Swedes (Germanic tribe) Vandals Varangians Vikings Germanic Christianity Romanization

Society and culture	Mead hall Alliterative verse Migration Period art Runes Runic calendar Sippe Ancient Germanic law Lawspeaker Thing Germanic calendar Germanic kingship Germanic name Numbers in Norse mythology Romano-Germanic culture

Religion	Odin Thor Nerthus Veleda Tuisto Mannus Paganism Anglo-Saxon Continental Germanic mythology Frankish Norse Christianity Arianism Gothic

Dress	Bracteates Fibula Suebian knot

Warfare	Gothic and Vandal warfare Anglo-Saxon warfare Viking Age arms and armour Migration Period spear Migration Period sword

Burial practices	Tumulus Ship burial Norse funeral Alemannic grave fields Sutton Hoo Spong Hill

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Caritni

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