Art of primary and early history: Germanic art; Development of the Langobardreich

With the Langobards, the name is already puzzling: they could have been named after their long beards, is a well -known hypothesis - but they were most likely not really a unique selling point before the scissors were invented.

The name could also be derived from their halberd, the particularly long arguments that may have only led to these early Germanic habitats could conquer new habitats.

According to the story of the gods around Odin = Wodan (for us since Richard Wagner Wotan) and his wife FREA (= Frigg, marriage and motherhood goddess, who has nothing to do with the fertility and love goddess Freya Winniler, which was even further north, crashed with the vandals , During a conflict, a complicated story developed, at the end of which the Winnil Langobards was called ...

Göttersagen are basically gossip stories in which there is as much truth as in tabloid leaves or blog posts of uninformed people-but at least you can assume that Winniler and Langobards were used to talk about, to which stories were now just told.

The fact is that Winniler can only be admired in medieval games today ( www.winniler.net/gallery.html ); While the Langobards left us a lot of amazing art and architecture.

For secular oriented people, one can summarize the history of the Langobards as follows: Actually, the Langobards were Elbe -Germans, such as the Sueben (= Swabia) and the Semnons (went to the Alamanni ), with a secure presence on the lower Elbe in the late 1st century BC. Chr.

Around 370 N Chr. It was probably too cold in Germania , they started from the lower Elbe (where they had populated the fertile area of ​​the Magdeburg Börde) at the southeast and always towards the sun. At some point they probably got a little too far to the east and therefore preferred to turn right shortly before Budapest (probably because it was already colder again) - which was now possible, before that they were long for vertical stone walls called "Alpen".

Turn right after circulation of the Alps was a good idea and finally brought the Langobards into the upper part of the Italian boot, the Po-level had climatic for shivering, poorly attracted Elbufer settlers to offer something.

The Langobards conquered Turin, Verona, Genoa and also shortly Venice, the pavia, which was just below Milan, became the capital of Lombard Empire, founded by King Albion in the warm south.

For 206 years, people in the beautiful warm Langobarden kingdom were largely able to live, build and make art, then the next big unwilling place had enough stupid stupid for community mass murder/mass self -murder: Charlemagne besieged 774 for a good nine months and finally conquered it because on his side a few more people survived.

Karl stuck the last Langobardenkönig Desiderius and wife in a Franconian/French monastery (in Corbie an der Somme) in order to crown herself to the king of the Langobards.

The Langobardreich was now part of the Franconian Empire, which was generally accepted very quickly. Only Desiderius' son (who had sworn eternal revenge for the shaken, which was dismissed by his parents, which is handed down to us in any gods) still added a few uprisings in Friuli and the surrounding area, and the Duchy of Benevent (almost at the boot's tip in today's Campania) remained so long that it was only at the end of the 11th century to southern Italian. is forced.

Otherwise, life continued, the Langobards gradually took over and converted Roman traditions and converted to Catholicism more often in the 7th century (which should not bring them much more in the future).

The Langobards Germanic tribes (Documentary radio play)

Documentation: The Langobards (DVD / Preview)

The name of the Langobards was preserved on behalf of the Northern Italian region of Lombardy (Italian Lombardia, also Langobardia); The Lombardy language, which has been considered extinct since about 1000, is cultivated by the "Centro di Dialettologia e di etnographia" in Bellinzona/Tessin and sometimes also by radiotelevisione Svizzera; Otherwise, for a long time, only a few modern Lombard singers took care of the Langobard heritage in Italy (with moderate success, dialects in Italy are more considered a "proletand language").

Already in the referendum dated October 22, 2017, completely new autonomy efforts were shown in Veneto and Lombardy , accumulated by the independence referendum of Catalonia. The situation in Italy has not become better since then; Overwhelmed Italian politicians are again right in the middle of the "We-against-Rest-der-Welt" mode, the perfidious game with the innate longing for people for group membership have used crusty systems for distraction through all times in world history.

Because it has always worked out so well - crusty systems make life difficult for good -welfare people, because it is easier and looks easier and looks like action, while malicious people gain more and more freedom; And the "decrustation" can only come from the citizens.

Until they realize what, they are so afraid in their stomach that they can no longer think clearly, and this also means that the disadvantaged people in particular run after themselves who in reality only want to save themselves ...

In Italy it was only about “additional forms of autonomy” such as recognition/care of the Lombardy dialect, now there is already talk of “exit from everything”. Hardly any art historian would be surprised if the xenophobic Lega, which has been with us since June 2018, would soon get the Lombard crown out of the sink.

After all, the Lega is originally called "Lega Nord per L'Inipendenza della Padania" (League North for the independence of Padania), this "propaganda sate" Padania has a lot of common with the former Langobardreich, and the famous iron crown of the Langobards has already irritated completely different power neurotics: underpin their claim to the now "Kingdom of Italy" The last bearer was called Napoleon Bonaparte and, as Emperor Napoleon I, he brought war for 23 years with 3.5 million war dead.