Experts in Germanic literature... solemnly assent: emigrati… - Walter Goffart

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Experts in Germanic literature... solemnly assent: emigration from Scandinavia is an authentic "tribal memory"...

Walter Goffart

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Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a Belgian-born American historian of the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages who specializes in research on the barbarian kingdoms of those periods.

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Alternative Names: Walter Andre Goffart • Walter A. Goffart

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Experts in Germanic literature... solemnly assent: emigration from Scandinavia is an authentic "tribal memory"... - Walter Goffart

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