North Germanic tribes are the Germanic tribes that left
ScandinaviaScandinavia is a geographical region in northern Europe that includes, and is named after, the Scanian Province. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark...
late on the second phase of the
migration periodThe Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or Völkerwanderung , was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between the years 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages...
, that took place between AD
500Year 500 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.-Europe:* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex...
and
900Year 900 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.-Asia:* Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea....
, and those whose people are still there nowadays. However, some people of
EastThe Germanic tribes referred to as East Germanic constitute a wave of migrants who may have moved from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers between 600 - 300 BC. Later they went to the south...
and
West Germanic tribesThe West Germanic tribes were Germanic peoples who spoke the branch of Germanic languages known as West Germanic languages.They appear to be derived from the Jastorf culture, a Pre-Roman Iron Age offshoot of the Nordic Bronze Age culture....
did not migrate with their tribes, staying in Scandinavia, and their East and West Germanic languages evolved into dialects of North Germanic, due to contact with North Germanic tribes and/or cultural assimilation.
Two North Germanic tribes are the
DanerThe Danes were a North Germanic tribe residing in modern day southern Sweden and on the Danish islands . They are mentioned in the 6th century in Jordanes' Getica, by Procopius, and by Gregory of Tours....
(
Dani), that gave their name to
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
, and the
SuionesThe Swedes were an ancient North Germanic tribe in Scandinavia...
(
Svear), that gave their name to
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
.
North Germanic tribes are the Germanic tribes that left
ScandinaviaScandinavia is a geographical region in northern Europe that includes, and is named after, the Scanian Province. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark...
late on the second phase of the
migration periodThe Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or Völkerwanderung , was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between the years 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages...
, that took place between AD
500Year 500 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.-Europe:* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex...
and
900Year 900 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.-Asia:* Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea....
, and those whose people are still there nowadays. However, some people of
EastThe Germanic tribes referred to as East Germanic constitute a wave of migrants who may have moved from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers between 600 - 300 BC. Later they went to the south...
and
West Germanic tribesThe West Germanic tribes were Germanic peoples who spoke the branch of Germanic languages known as West Germanic languages.They appear to be derived from the Jastorf culture, a Pre-Roman Iron Age offshoot of the Nordic Bronze Age culture....
did not migrate with their tribes, staying in Scandinavia, and their East and West Germanic languages evolved into dialects of North Germanic, due to contact with North Germanic tribes and/or cultural assimilation.
Two North Germanic tribes are the
DanerThe Danes were a North Germanic tribe residing in modern day southern Sweden and on the Danish islands . They are mentioned in the 6th century in Jordanes' Getica, by Procopius, and by Gregory of Tours....
(
Dani), that gave their name to
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
, and the
SuionesThe Swedes were an ancient North Germanic tribe in Scandinavia...
(
Svear), that gave their name to
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
. According to
JordanesJordanes , was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat , who turned his hand to history later in life.Though he also wrote Romana, a book about the history of Rome, his most known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551...
, the Dani and the Suiones were tallest of all men and (named by him
Suetidi) were of the same stock.
An example of a West Germanic tribe being culturally assimilated by a North Germanic one, is the assimilation of the
JutesThe Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time...
that hadn't left
JutlandJutland , historically also called Cimbria, forms the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish-German border to its south...
and have been incorporated into the Dani. And an example of an East Germanic tribe being assimilated is the assimilation of the
GothsThe Goths were a heterogeneous East Germanic tribe. The historian Jordanes claimed that the Goths arrived from semi-legendary Scandza, believed to be somewhere in modern Götaland , and that a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century, lending their name to the region of...
that stayed in Sweden by the Suiones (See Gotlanders).
Today's North Germanic–speaking people are the Norwegians,
DanesDanish people are a nation and ethnic group native to Denmark, who speak Danish. This includes people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, whether living in Denmark, emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants, eg: the Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, a former Danish province.The...
,
SwedesSwedes are a Scandinavian people, mostly inhabiting Sweden and the other Nordic countries, with descendants living in a number of countries....
,
IcelandersIcelanders are the national group or ethnic group of Iceland descended primarily from Norsemen of Scandinavia and Celts. Historical and DNA records indicate that about 20% of those who settled in Iceland were from Britain and Ireland and 80% were from Scandinavia.On 17 June 1944, when an Icelandic...
and
FaroeseThe Faroese or Faroe Islanders are the people of the Faroe Islands in Northern Europe of Celtic and Norse origins.About 21,000 Faroese live in neighbouring countries, particularly in Denmark, Iceland and Norway....
.