Warini

The Warning (also Wariner, Varinner, Varinne, Variner, latin Varini, Varni, Greek Ουαρνοι Warnoi or Ουαρίνοι Warinoi ) were a Germanic tribe. The Old High German form of its name is Warjan.

Ancient sources

Pliny the Elder mentions in his Naturalis historia Varinnae together with the Burgundians, Gutones and Charinern that he belonged to the group of Vandili ( Vandals ).

Tacitus in his Germania is one of the Varini of the seven small and unwarlike tribes that he had the great Suebenstämmen Semnones and Lombards facing and protected by forests and rivers before battles and challenges.

Claudius Ptolemy mentioned around 150 AD in his Geographike Hyphegesis the Οὐίρουνοι ( Wirounoi ) as a small tribe among the Saxons, the ( approximately Holstein) is located at the neck of the Cimbrian peninsula and the Suevi.

Warn in Mecklenburg

Historians are not quite sure whether the three ancient authors thought the same root. The settlement area appears to have lain in the western Mecklenburg. In the migration period left in the 2nd or 3rd century, but most of the warning along with parts of neighboring people fishing their homeland and immigrated to former settlement areas of Hermunduren. A part may be retarded and have mixed with the moving up in the 6th to 8th centuries Slavs. Some, but not many waters and other geographic names between the Elbe and the Oder refer to pre-Slavic Germanic origins. The extent to which the ancient settlement area of ​​the warning can be read from today's name is doubtful. Thus, the toponyms Warnow, and Warin alternatively attributed to the warning or Slavic words: Warnow of wran ( Varna, wron ) for crow or raven, Warin about a personal name of wariti ( cook ). The city's name goods is often associated with Ptolemy's Οὐιρουνον (Latin: Virunum ) associated and could thus go back to the tribal name of the warning. This, however, does not fit to the coordinates by which Virunum located east of Suevus. Taking Ptolemy's coordinates serious, so he wrote the name Chalusus (see above) for the Warnow.

Warn in Thuringia

Together with populations of fishing, Hermunduren and other tribes, including Turones, Quadi, Marcomanni, Lombards and Semnones, the warning were probably the later grand master of Thuringia, whose tribal territory was incorporated during the 6th century in the Frankish Empire. With their neighbors, the Frisians, Saxons, Franks and turning the warning were apparently famous for their excellent weapons ironwork.

Warn at the mouth of the Rhine

In addition, there is evidence of a Warne Empire around the year 500 in the Rhine estuary. After Prokop Warn live back then ... beyond the Danube and extend to the northern ocean and towards the Rhine from. Whether this passage refers to a kingdom of western Warn in the Rhine estuary, however, is controversial. It is also conceivable that under the name of warning here Thuringian were understood. When the Frankish Merovingians in the 6th century occurred two personalities from the leadership of the warning: Hermegis king and his son Radegis, the Frankish princess Theudechild married successively ( † before 579 ), daughter of King Theodoric I.. This could have originated in the West realm of the possible warning on the Rhine.

The rights of the people of warning are in separate Eastern Frankish capitularies - written down - along with those of fishing.

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• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 4.99
• Tacitus, Germania 40.2
• Prokopios, De bello Gothico 2-3