Victrix Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 What were some of the weapons that the Germanic people use during 1st and 2nd centuries AD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 The framea for certain. You may want to read through Tacitus: Germania to start. Modern scholars dispute some of his conjectures, but never completely. Tacitus' information is really the only written' first source material that we have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victrix Posted April 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 Tacitus: Germania "Swords they rarely use, or the larger spear. They carry javelins or, in their own language, framms, pointed with a piece of iron short and narrow, but so sharp and manageable, that with the same weapon they can fight at a distance or hand to hand, just as need requires." Thanks alot Primus! So they didn't use Axes and Long Bows.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germanicus Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 yes they did use small pick style axes to some extent, and I believe they also sometimes used Roman weaponry after military and trading contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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