- The
Turcilingi (also
spelled Torcilingi or Thorcilingi) were an
obscure barbarian people, or
possibly a clan or dynasty, who
appear in
historical sources...
-
Jordanes mentions "the
western country"
being "shaken by the
tyranny of the
Torcilingi and Rugi"
during Odoacer's reign. In his Romana, the same
author defines...
-
promised land in
Italy to
various Germanic mercenaries, Heruli,
Scirian and
Torcilingi, in
exchange for
their support. He
drove Julius Nepos out of
Ravenna and...
- side of the
Rhine around Tongeren Julius Caesar,
Tacitus Turcilingi,
Torcilingi,
Thorcilingi Turcilingae Turones,
Turoni Turoni Possibly Celto-Germanic...
- was in fact a Hun and that
Thuringian in the
source is a
mistake for
Torcilingi. Accordingly, his sons
Hunoulph ("Hun-wolf") and Odoacer, who
would go...
- and predecessors...--wherefore is it now
shaken by the
tyranny of the
Torcilingi and the Rugi? Send me
there with my race. Thus if you but say the word...
