This article deals with the history and mythology of Germanic tribe of Langobards (varying with the name Longobards/Lombards). The Langobards started their long journey from North Europe during the Migration Age, eventually settling in Northern Italy and forming a wealthy kingdom. The Langobards represent an example of people migrating along the Amber Road and staying true to their traditions even when in a new homeland, which is why we at Via Electri are happy to present to you this unveiling of the origins and religion of an ancient European tribe.
"Sitibonds of human blood": the furious horde of the Langobards
Fom Terra Insubre 97, 2021
by ANDREA ANSELMO
The archaeological evidence and the renewed analysis of the Lombard legislative corpus shed new light on the initiatory practices of these ancestors of the contemporary Italians, as well as studies of comparative Indo-European mythology.
"The solitude of the Faustian soul cannot be reconciled with a dualism of cosmic powers. Already around the Germanic gods and heroes stretched inhospitable distances, enigmatic darkness; they now emerge from the music, at night, because daylight creates frontiers to the eye, and yet corporeal things. The night dematerializes, the day disanimate.
In the Edda we hear those deep night hours in which Faust meditates in his study. Wotan, Baldur, Frea have never had a Euclidean figure. As with the gods of Vedic India of them one cannot form an image, some comparison." (Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West)