Langobard Puns

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the national museum of archaeology in Cividale, Friuli, Italy, and found something slightly unexpected: of the numerous langobard sword findings shown only the smallest number had the H form hilt that I had known as typical for the period (late 6th century, Northern italy) Most have a pommel of bronze (pyramidal for example), but apparently no guard. Now, that doesn't seem to make sense, but I can't find anything that would indicate that there was anything left out from the exhibits, or lost in reconstruction. My question therefor is: are hilts conceivable with guards made of perishable material? Or is this deemed an artifact or an exception? Or do the finds really indicate that there were no guards (comparable to the long-saxes, which had none either).

A Godan Wodan Hoedown.

Sorry, not sorry.

How I did it:

-Very aggressive use of agents to Assassinate Generals and harass/sabotage armies. Harass is very good for chipping away at high-quality Hunnic units and forcing the AI to hire mercs to fill out the Huns stacks. Sabotage is a great debuff before battles. Spoil Provisions and Preach Doom are also good, but don't seem to cut as deep into an army's combat power.

-Deal them defeat in detail, favor attacking a single hordes at a time with good odds over a decisive battle with even odds. The Langobard's faction bonus to replenishment by conscripting captured troops can largely negate the Hun's anti-replenishment bonus. The hordes won't stop spawning till Atilla is dead, but its always easier to destroy one horde and then two more than it is to destroy three at once.

-Spearmen/Archers + Cavalry and Horse Hewers on flanks. Occasionally you can surround HAs and force melee, but mostly you need to shoot them to pieces. Spearmen are essential to receive charges from and melee with cavalry. You can't beat Hunnic Cavalry with just your own horsemen, but if you can at least tie up their flanking cavalry in melee then you can win those fight by sending in spearmen or better yet horse-hewers. Horse-hewers will murder any cavalry in melee provided they aren't charged. Many Hunnic generals got hewed, including Attila. Melee infantry are largely useless and only helpful in dealing with the occasional infantry horde. Keeping one army stocked with your own melee infantry to deal with those should be sufficient.

Confession: I auto resolved battles that I felt sure to win due to numbers/agents.

For solo campaign only (hard difficulty).

For stopping/holding enemy I think: LANGOBARD CLUBMEN & SCALED CLUBMEN.

But what about:

1. Melee Cavalry & Shock Cavalry
2. Shock/Attacking Melee
3. Spear Infantry
4. Missile Infantry

What is worth upgrading and what is not?

So I know that in italian langobard is used to refer to the Germans that conquered most of italy.

Are the people in medieval history called Lombards the descendants of these Langobards or are they a native Latin people who adopted the name because the region they lived in was now called Lombardia?

I know this would be alot, but I was wondering if someone could come up with scientific reconstructions of the Langobardic names in the video game CK2. Most of them are Latinized, and thus not truly representative of the Langobardic language. (Example "Corvulus").

I know this is alot to ask, and I'm unsure if this is the right place to ask, but if anyone can take this up, I'll gladly include the nameslist to reconstruct.

You can specify seperately for the campaign, and MP.

Starting off:

I would love to see another Bagaudae bearing faction in the campaign. The reason is simple: There is no other unit in the game that could better be described as a sacrificial sponge as Baugae, put them in a garrison, throw them to their death. Call me crazy, but I get a sadistic joy in having a unit of designated casualties in my army.

Just saw that the get a 50% bonus to units recruited from defeated enemy forces. Does that mean an enemy army or defeated cities/ capitols?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Revised 01/17/22

Future additions and revisions to the postings in thread will be made as they are discovered. The kennings section in particular is woefully lacking due to the immense effort involved in verifying and sourcing the innumerable bynames of Odin. Many lists of these exist, mostly unsourced - and mostly inaccurate. Wikipedia is, as per usual, the most egregious offender. If you're a fellow kenning collector and you know where they came from, please contribute!

The opening post will consist of Etymology and Theonyms below. Scroll through the thread for Toponyms, (Some) Associations, Sources, (Some) Kennings and Bynames, Excerpts (I, II, III), and Related Concepts. Reddit's character limit required that this study be broken up into several posts.

Proto-Celto-Germanic: *Watonos

Proto-North/West-Germanic: *Woðanaz

Gothic: *Woðans, Gaut

Langobardic: Godan, Guodan

Proto-High German: Wodan

Old High German: Wuotan

Medieval German: Wotan, Wodan

Old English: Woden

Transitional Proto-Norse: Woðinz

Standardized Old Norse: Óðinn

Modern Danish, Norwegian, English: Odin

Proto-Indo-European: *uehatis ['god-inspired'] (Mallory & Adams 1997), cf. *uat- (Pokorny 1959); *wet- (Watkins 2000); wath- (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Proto-Indo-European: *wet- ['to blow, inspire, spiritually arouse'] (Watkins 2000).

Proto-Indo-European: *wath- [the state of emotional arousal, ecstasy, or inspiration involved with the process of poetic creation] (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Proto-Indo-European: *wehtis ['god-inspired] (Koch 2020).

Proto-Indo-European: *(h)ueht-i- ['seer'] (de Vaan 2008)

Vedic Sanskrit: api-vat- ['inspire'] (Mallory & Adams 1997; Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Vedic Sanskrit: kavi- [an epithet of Rudra] (Dumézil 1983); ['wise, wise man, seer, poet' cf. kavyata 'wisdom'] (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Avestan: api-vataite ['inspires'] (Mallory & Adams 1997; Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Old Church Slavonic: veti(ji) ['orator'] (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995).

Proto-Celto-Germanic: *Watonos [Theonym; 'raving, possessed'] (Mallory & Adams 1997) (Puhvel 1987).

Proto-Celto-Germanic: *wetis ['god-inspired'] (Koch 2020).

Proto-Celtic: *wati- ['prophet'] (de Vaan 2008; Koch 2020); ['sooth-sayer, prophet'] (Matasović 2009).

Proto-Celtic: *watu- ['poetic inspiration'] (Matasović 2009).

Greco-Gaulish: οὐάτεις‎ (Strabo) [ouateis; 'those

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.