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The
Istvaeones, also called
Istaevones, Istriaones, Istriones, Sthraones, Thracones, Rhine Germans and
Weser-Rhine Germans (
Istwäonen,
Weser-Rhein-Germanen in German), were a
West Germanic cultural group or proto-tribe. Their name was recorded in
Germania by
Tacitus, a Roman historian, in the
1st century AD, who categorized them as one of the tribes of the sons of
Mannus and labelled them as those tribes who were neither
Ingvaeones nor
Irminones. The Istvaeones were the tribe of
Istaev, son of
Mannus. They dwelt around the
Atlantic coast (modern day
Netherlands,
Belgium and northern
France) as well as the
Rhine and
Weser river systems from perhaps 500 BCE, until the differentiation of localized
Teutonic tribes (
Chatti,
Hessians,
Franks) in that region circa 250 CE. There is also evidence some of them merged with the
North Sea Germans (
Ingvaeones).
Jacob Grimm in the book
Deutsche Mythologie urged that
Iscaevones was the correct form, partly because it would connect the name to an ancestor figure in
Norse mythology named
Ask, and partly because in
Nennius where the name
Mannus is corrupted as
Alanus, the ancestor of the Istaevones appears as
Escio or
Hisicion. There the sons of this figure are, fantastically, from Frankish tradition, Francus, Romanus, Alamanus, and Bruttus, the supposed ancestors of the
Franks,
Latins,
Germans and
Britons. This seems to reflect Frankish desire to connect the Franks with the people they ruled.
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