8/31 Questions

• The Hildebrandslied was written between 825 and 850 AD.
• It was written in Bavarian, but there are many indications of other languages present in the text, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly what the language it was written in was.
• It seems to be an old warrior about to do battle with his son? The language was confusing to me, even in the translation, but it seemed that they were exchanging words before a fight.
• Poor Henry got leprosy and to cure it, he traveled a lot. He found a place in Italy where he found he needed to sacrifice a virgin to be cured. Not finding a virgin, he decided to sell all of his things and live with freemen. He met a girl and fell in love with her, and she agrees to be sacrificed for him. He changes his mind at the last second and they return home to get married.
• It was a nice story, and it reminded me of a bible parable.
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8/26 Questions

• Germanic tribes came from the middle parts to the upper parts of Europe and headed south towards the Roman Empire, around where the modern-day countries of Germany and Poland lie.
• I learned that Germania was relatively simply structured, and didn't have a very strong central government. However, I noticed that The Short Pictoral History reading depicted the Germanic tribes as much more peaceful, and Tacitus described them as much more violent. I'm not sure if this is because they focused on different communities or if they put in a lot of their own opinions towards the Germanic peoples.
• Tacitus seems to have a really negative view towards the Germanic people. They described them almost entirely as a people who only made time for war, and when they were not at war, they lounged around and did nothing.
• Limes were giant walls that separated the conquered people from the people still in lands under Germanic control.
• The Thing was an annual event that the Germanic people gathered at every year, according to The Short Pictoral History reading. Here a lot of state issues were discussed, sort of like a Congress or a Parliament.
• Arminus was nicknamed "Hermann the German," and he led the Germanic people around the time that they became known as Germans.
• The last picture will not fully load on my computer as anything more than very large pixels, so I'm not able to answer that question at this time.

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