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5583 |
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Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680) Anonymous - Other |
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Moverunt se ergo duces Wandalorum, id est Ambri et Assi, cum exercitu suo, et dicebant ad Winniles: ‘Aut solvite nobis tributa, aut praeprate vos ad pugnam et pugnate nobiscum’.
Tunc responderunt Ybor et Agio cum matre sua Gambara: “Melius est nobis pugnam praeparare, quam Wandalis tributa persolvere”. |
| Translation |
Then the leaders of the Wandals, that is, Ambri and Assi, moved with their army, and said to the Winniles: “Either pay us tributes or prepare yourselves for battle and fight with us.” Then answered Ybor and Agio, with their mother Gambara: “It is better for us to make ready the battle than to pay tributes to the Wandals.”
(W.D. Foukes, trans., E. Peters, ed., Origo gentis langobardorum (1974), p. 316) |
| Summary |
The opening of the Origo continues by establishing a conflict between two gens [peoples]. The leaders of the larger peoples, the Wandals, set an ultimatum to the smaller peoples of the Winnili, that they must either pay tribute or go to war. The Winnili, under the leadership of their matriach Gambara and her two sons, Ybor and Agio opt to fight rather than pay tribute. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), p. 2 |
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