half-teuton

Updated: July 22, 2026

You must read and judge for yourselves. I cannot, at least as yet, offer you any solution of the enigma. Least of all can I sketch Justinian the Great, the half-Teuton peasant, whom his uncle Justin sent for out of the Dardanian hills, to make him a demigod upon earth.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge