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Goths: see Ostrogoths Ostrogoths (East Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of the Germans . According to their own unproven tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of S Sweden . By the 3d cent. A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. ; Visigoths Visigoths (West Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of Germans . Having settled in the region W of the Black Sea in the 3d cent. A.D., the Goths soon split into two divisions, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| He greeted them with joy, and after feasting and song the Danes and their King departed and left the Goths to guard the hall. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. This may not be understood-but the old Goths of Germany would have understood it, who used to debate matters of importance to their State twice, once when drunk, and once when sober-sober that they might not be deficient in formality--drunk lest they should be destitute of vigor. |
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