The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers (1910)
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 117
that, inthe year 568 a.d., Italy was entered by anotherswarm of barbaric invaders who gradually madethemselves masters of the greater part of the penin-sula, which they held for two hundred years. Thesewere the Lombards, the so-called Lango-bardi.Theequation Langobardi = Longbeards sounds verylike… … The Lombard Migrations. THE LOMBARDS them in the district on the Lower Elbe, not far fromLiineburg, that was for long called after their name Bardengau. There were certain striking affin-ities, in dress and other respects, observed betweenthe Lombards and the Anglo-Saxons, which mayhave been due to…