Skiing

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The Skiren were a Germanic tribe in Eastern Central Europe .

The name "Skiren" is one of the oldest recorded Germanic ethnonyms . They are only mentioned sporadically in the sources. Tacitus and Ptolemy did not report on them, but Pliny the Elder did . The Bastarni large parts of Skiren moved 200 v. In the Black Sea region . The Skiren were not mentioned by name in the following period; it was only recorded again in the late antique "Veronese Table of Nations".

After trying in vain - probably in 381 - to invade the Roman Empire, they were subjugated by the Huns during the Migration Period in the 5th century . After Attila's death in 453, Edekon established a short-lived ski kingdom in Alföld , which was already lost in 469. Parts of the Skiren moved west with the West and Ostrogoths , others entered Roman services as federates . Among these federates was Edekon's son, Odoacer , who was proclaimed king by the Italian federate troops after the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476. The Skiren as intact gens had already ceased to exist by this time.

The “ Turkilinger ”, often referred to in older research as the Skirian dynasty (or as an ethnic group), are probably a historical phantom. It is very likely that they go back to a misunderstanding of the historian Jordanes , who is the only one who reports about it and always in connection with Odoacer. Since another son of Edekon, Onoulf , is referred to in a source as the son of a Thuringian , the Jordanes's mistake is probably based on this.

Only in Jordanes are the Angisciri ( Angiskiren ) mentioned, over which the Hun ruler Dengizich ruled alongside three other tribes. Your other history is in the dark. It is possible that an unfamiliar tribal name was adapted to that of the better-known Skiren; their name can be interpreted as Graslandskiren or Feldskiren .

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  1. ↑ Stefan Zimmer :  Skiing. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , p. 639.
  2. ^ Helmut Castritius :  Skiren. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 640–641.
  3. ^ Helmut Castritius:  Skiren. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , p. 641.
  4. ↑ On the late history of the Skiren cf. Helmut Castritius:  Skiing. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , pp. 643-644.
  5. ↑ Suda , keyword Kata patera kai mêtera , Adler number: kappa 693 , Suda-Online
  6. ↑ See also Helmut Castritius:  Skiren. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 28, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018207-6 , p. 643.
  7. ↑ Jordanes, Getica 53, 272.
  8. ↑ Cf. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen: The world of the Huns. Vienna u. a. 1978, p. 299. Accordingly, they were possibly of Turkish origin, which (if applicable) would distinguish them from the Skiren.