Von dem Teütschen land / Von den Gothen / Wandeln und Hunen.

Title

Von dem Teütschen land / Von den Gothen / Wandeln und Hunen.

Representation of the Goths and Huns in Europe.The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe, between the 4th and 6th century AD. According to European tradition, they were first reported living east of the Volga River, in an area that was part of Scythia at the time; the Huns' arrival is associated with the migration westward of an Iranian people, the Alans. The Goths were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence of Medieval Europe.

ca. 1550

Artist

Münster