TheReudigni were one of theNerthus-worshippingGermanic tribes mentioned byTacitus inGermania.Schütte[3] suggests that the name should be readRendingi orRandingi and then the name would be the same as theRondings ofWidsith. They have otherwise been lost to history, but they may have lived inDenmark prior to the arrival of theDanes recorded byJordanes. Schütte suggests that their name lives on in the namesRanders andRanders Fjord,Denmark.
(Original Latin) "Reudigni deinde etAviones etAnglii etVarini etEudoses etSuardones etNuithones 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 the Reudignians, andAviones, andAngles, and Varinians, andEudoses, andSuardones andNuithones; 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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