History of the Lombards

Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum . Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts the mythical origins of the Lombards. In his recording, he offers us such gems as this, from chapter 4: In the farthest boundaries of Germany toward the west-northwest, on the shore of the ocean itself,…