Lemovii

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Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Rugii, who lived in the proximity of the Lemovii.

The Lemovii were a Germanic tribe, only once named by Tacitus in the late 1st century.<ref name=Oxfordtranslation836/><ref name=Rives311/> He noted that they lived near the Rugii and both lived east of the Gutones, who are lived in the delta of the Vistula river. All three of these peoples they had short swords and round shields.<ref name=Oxfordtranslation836>The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised, With Notes, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p.836, Template:ISBN</ref><ref name=Rives311>J. B. Rives on Tacitus, Germania, Oxford University Press, 1999, p.311, Template:ISBN</ref>

The Oksywie culture is associated with parts of the Rugii and Lemovii.<ref name=Rives311/> Also, the Plöwen group (Template:Langx) of the Uecker-Randow region is associated with the Lemovii.<ref>Horst Keiling, Archäologische Funde von der frührömischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter aus den mecklenburgischen Bezirken, Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Schwerin, 1984, p.8</ref>

The archaeological Dębczyn group might comprise the remnants of the Lemovii, probably identical with Widsith's Glommas, who are believed to have been the neighbors of the Rugii, a tribe dwelling at the Baltic Sea coast in today's Pomerania region before the migration period.<ref name=Hoops158159/><ref name=Hoops258259/> Both "Lemovii" and "Glommas" translate to "the barking".<ref name=Hoops258259>Johannes Hoops et al., Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Walter de Gruyter, pp.258-259, Template:ISBN</ref> Germanic sagas report a battle on the isle of Hiddensee between king Hetel (Hethin, Heodin of the Glommas) and Rugian king Hagen, following the abduction of Hagen's daughter Hilde by Hetel.<ref name=Hoops158159/> Yet, there are also other hypotheses about the location of the Lemovii, and that their identification as Glommas, though probable, is not certain.<ref name=Hoops158159>Johannes Hoops, Herbert Jankuhn, Heinrich Beck, Rosemarie Muller, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer, Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 2nd edition, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, pp.158,159, Template:ISBN [1]</ref>

The Lemovii have also been equated with Jordanes' Turcilingi, together with the Rugii with Ptolemy's Rhoutikleioi, also with Ptolemy's Leuonoi and with the Leonas of the Widsith.<ref name=Hoops258259/>

See also

• Rugii
• Oxhöft culture
• Dębczyn group
• Early history of Pomerania
• List of ancient Germanic peoples

References

• Tacitus, Germania.XLIV