TheNuithones were one of theNerthus-worshippingGermanic tribes mentioned byTacitus inGermania.Schütte[3] remarks that the name is probably corrupt and suggests that the correct forms wereTeutones orEuthiones (Jutes).
(Original Latin) "Reudigni deinde etAviones etAnglii etVarini etEudoses etSuardones et Nuithones fluminibus aut silvis muniuntur. Nec quicquam notabile in singulis, nisi quod in commune Nerthum, id est Terram matrem, colunt eamque intervenire rebus hominum, invehi populis arbitrantur. ..." --Tacitus,Germania,40.[1]
(English translation) "There follow in order theReudignians, andAviones, andAngles, and Varinians, andEudoses, andSuardones and Nuithones; all defended by rivers or forests. Nor in one of these nations does aught remarkable occur, only that they universally join in the worship ofHerthum (Nerthus); that is to say, the Mother Earth."--Tacitus,Germania,40, translated 1877 by Church and Brodribb.[2]
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