Hasdingi

Hasdings, also called Asdings or Haddings (due to the Hadding royal lineage ). View Haddingjadalr / Haddingjar.

So-called Germanic people who must have wandered from the valleys in southern Norway ( Hallingdal / Buskerud ), via Götaland ( Vendel ), Jutland ( Vendsyssel ) and filtering The Sjælland (Zealand) and brought over the Baltic Sea in the period from 200 BC to 200 AD. They will then have settled south of the Silingi (Silesia / Schlesien) in today's Slovakia / Hungary.

Many Haddings could have served as a Roman " foederati " and even advanced to become generals and soldier-emperors, before they formed the southern fraction of the Vandal peoples . Together with the Silingi, Burgundians, Suebi and Alans, they managed to cross the Rhine, new years eve 406.

Having ravaged their way through Gaul they crossed the Pyrenees autumn 409, and shared the Iberian peninsula with the aforementioned peoples in 411. The Hasdings / Haddings settled north of the Suebi in todays Galicia.

When the Alans were attacked by the Visigoths in 416-419 , they came to the aid of these and together they captured the Silings (V)andalucia , in the 420 's. The Hasdings were the survivors of the two Vandal fractions, and should become the royal dynasty after their powerful leader Genseric had crossed Gibraltar ( 429 ) and conquered North Africa by the Romans in 439 (see Vandal kingdom ) .

The Romans first encounter with the Hasdings is said to have been by the Danube in the year 170 AD.

As ostrogothic Theodoric the Great, King Genseric should also " have viewed with a wet eye " to the north and his own hasdings/haddings earliest origins in a distant northern Scandza ( Scandinavia) .

See also

• Haddingjar, who appear to be late reflections of the Hasdingi in Norse mythology.
• Migrations period
• Silingi
• The western Alans and Vandals
• Timeline of Germanic kingdoms

References

• Hydatii Episcopi Chronicon Template:La icon