Norix

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The mythological Norix is the conqueror of the Kingdom of Norikum and the founder of Regensburg .

Norix is ​​said to be a son of Hercules, where Heracles and Alemanus Hercules come into question. Norix is ​​also the namesake of Norikum. Norix is ​​mentioned for the first time in the "Vita Altmanni", the biography of Bishop Altmann von Passau .

literature

  • Ernst Mummenhoff : Nuremberg's origin and age in the representations of the historians and in the light of history.
  • Anton Ferdinand Reichsritter von Geusau : History of Austria from the oldest to the present time. Vienna, 1800
  • Richard Loewe: The remains of the Teutons on the Black Sea. 1896

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in The Remains of the Teutons on the Black Sea, page 88ff.