जर्मनिक (en. Germanic)

After the decline of the Roman Empire, a Germanic tribe known as the Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes.

In 58 BC, Caesar defeated the Germanic tribe of the Suebi, which was led by Ariovistus.

The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain developed into what we now call Old English.

A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings.

The majority (86%) of residents are of Austrian-Germanic stock with a cultural connection with Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west and Germany to the north.

English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages.

As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval "chronicle tradition" of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Historia Brittonum is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War, when Arthur's legendary resistance to Germanic enemies struck a chord in Britain.