Harii
The Harier ( handwritten as Harios and [H] arii ) were a Germanic tribe. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the Harii were an addition to the Helvekonen, Manimern, Halisionen and Nahanarvalern one of the five main tribes of Lugier who settled between the Vistula and Oder. Tacitus also reports:
" Ceterum Harii super vires, quibus enumeratos paulo ante populos antecedunt, truces insitae feritati arte ac tempore lenocinantur: Scuta nigra, tincta corpora; atras ad proelia Noctes legunt ipsaque formidine atque umbra feralis exercitus terrorem inferunt, nullo hostium Sustinente novum ac Velut infernum aspectum; nam primi in omnibus proeliis oculi vincuntur. "
" In contrast, the Harier surpass the recently enumerated tribes not only strength, but are also to be considered terrible and help their innate wildness still after by artificial means and convenient time. ( Because ) are black shields, painted the upper body; they choose dark nights for the fight, and so they 've been chasing through the gruesome shadowy apparition of the ghostly army terror, as no enemy can withstand the terrible, almost infernal sight; because first, the eyes are in all battles conquered. "
The brief mention in Tacitus leaves of modern research considerable room for interpretation.
While some older researchers have equated the Harii with the tribe of the Vandals Charini, other went on the assumption that " Harii " not a separate tribe, but only a label for the warriors of the Lugier was.
By linguists, the name is associated with the Gothic word for army, harjis, and the Einherjern Germanic mythology.
Tacitus ' description of the Harier think of as " feralis exercitus ", as " Dead Army ", also makes a connection with the old Germanic idea of the savage army.
However, recent text-critical research seem to indicate that the earlier conjecture that konjiziert the issue in the Tacitus manuscripts word alii ( "others" ) to