Haruder

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Haruder or Haruden (also Harother , Charuder ; Latin : Harudes ) was the name of a Germanic tribe or several Germanic tribes. The plural Haruden is more common today . The Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, for example, consistently uses this form.

The Haruden are first mentioned by the Roman general and author Julius Caesar in De bello Gallico , his report on his wars in Gaul . Around the year 70 BC Under the leadership of the Germanic prince Ariovistus, various tribes invaded the area of ​​the Gauls in search of new settlement areas. According to Caesar, the Gauls, who were under the protectorate of the Roman Empire , asked Rome for help. Caesar then names the Haruden among the seven tribes that he found in a battle on the Rhine in 51 BC. Defeated BC. It is not known where the Haruden were settled at that time.

In 6 AD, the Charudians paid tribute to the Romans on their Tiberius- led expedition to the Skagerrak . The same Charuder are localized by Ptolemy around 150 AD in the northern part of the Jutian peninsula, where the landscape name Hardsyssel (corresponds roughly to today's Ringkjøbing Amt ) goes back to them.

Jordanes finally mentioned the Arothi around 550 AD , who belonged to the kingdom of Rodulf . Your name should have been preserved in the Norwegian landscape of Hordaland .

The family of the Lombard dukes of Brescia , from which the two long bard kings Rothari and Rodoald descended, are known as ex genere Arodus . The question of whether it is the tribal name of the Haruden or the peak ancestor Wotan / Odin has not yet been clarified by experts.

The mention of Haruden as a resident and namesake of the Harz by Rudolf von Fulda is based on a learned but incorrect etymology of the Middle Ages.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Caesar, De bello Gallico , 1, 51-54
  2. ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity . 2nd Edition. tape 14 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-016423-7 , pp. 21 ( google.de [accessed on January 3, 2020]).
  3. ^ Ludwig Schmidt : The West Germans . Beck, Munich 1938, 1970, p. 19; Walther Mitzka : Small writings on the history of language and language geography . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 77.

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