tribe-feuds

Updated: August 11, 2026

Or was the hatred against his men more than himself, contempt especially of the low-caste Herules, a question of race, springing out of those miserable tribe-feuds, which kept the Teutons always divided and weak? Be that as it may, Odoacer had done a deed which raised this hatred to open fury. They had plundered, it is said, the cell of his old friend St.

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