Scirii

The Skiren were a Germanic tribe in East Central Europe.

The name " Skiren " one of the oldest occupied Germanic ethnonyms. They first lived in the region of Masuria to the border of present-day Lithuania. Tacitus and Ptolemy did not mention though, but Pliny the Elder. With the Bastarni covered large parts of the Skiren to the south, in the region on the Black Sea. The Skiren are not mentioned by name in the following period; until the late antique " Veronese Table of Nations " lists them again. After she - probably in the year 381 - had tried in vain to penetrate into the Roman Empire, they were subjected in the migration period in the 5th century by the Huns. After the death of Attila in 453 established a short-lived Edekon Skirenreich in Alfold, which went under in the year 469. Parts of the Skiren covered with Western and Ostrogoths to the west, were other than federates in Roman service. Under these federates was also the son Edekons, Odoacer, who was proclaimed by the Italian Föderatentruppen after the deposition of the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, to the king. The Skiren as intact gens had already ceased to exist at this time.

The research in the elderly often than skirische dynasty (or as an ethnic group ) designated " Turki Lingen " are probably a historical phantom. They go very probably due to a misunderstanding of the historian Jordanes, who reports as a single one and always in conjunction with Odoacer. As another son Edekons, Onoulf, is referred to in one source as the son of a Thüringers, based on probably the fault of Jordanes.