Mannus
Continental Germanic · deity · continental germanic mythic origins · Recorded classification
HIS THREE SONS ARE NOT INGESTED. Tacitus does not name them; he names the PEOPLES descended from them, and there is nothing to record but three ethnonyms. That is the rule that rejected the Kalevanpojat in lane 20 and the Scyldings in lane 21, meeting the case it was made for.
Parentage
- parent: Tuisto
Domains
- origin of the people
Sources
- Mannus is Tuisto's son, founder of the Germanic nation in Tacitus's report, and father of the three sons the great tribal groupings are named from.: Reference treatments of Mannus and of Tacitus's Germania. (secondary)