Helvekonen

The Helvekonen (Latin Helvecones also Elouaiones , Elvaionen or Aelvaeones , Aelvaeonen , Ailouaiones (Αἰλουαίωνες) Alouiones (Αλουίωνες) Helouaiones ( 'Ελουαίωνες) Ailouones (Αἰλούονες) Helouones (' Ελουωνες)) were an East Germanic tribal group . In the 1st century AD they settled between the Oder and the Vistula , in what is now Silesia . Tacitus names them as a sub-tribe of the Lugians . Ptolemy, on the other hand, cites them, but there is no reference to a relationship between the Helvekonen and the Lugians.

literature

• Günter Neumann :  Elouaiones. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 161-163. (on-line)
• Hermann Reichert :  Helvecones. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 14, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016423-X , pp. 344-345. (on-line)
• Alexander Sitzmann, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic ethnonyms. A guide to their etymology. In: (= Philologica Germanica Vol. 29). Fassbaender, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902575-07-4 , p. 112.