Storm Over Europe: The Wandering Tribes

The Varus Battle and Gothic Sagas (1x2)

: 24, 2002

The Goths -including Gepides- started wandering from Scandinavia's Ostsee coast, to Poland, initially slow and fairly peaceful, then fast to the Danube. In 9 BC a Germanic alliance lead by the Cherusk tribe's honorary hostage, Arminius, defeated Roman invasion governor Varrus's three legions in Germania, ending the dream of turning it into another Roman province.