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THE BARBARIAN WORLD 59 EXERCISES AND READINGS Cesar and Tacitus on the Early Germans. Translations and Reprints of the University of Pennsylvania, vol. vi, no. 3, pp. 2-16. A. Take full notes of what Caesar and Tacitus say on the following points and arrange your notes so that those under each point will be together: — 1. Physical and personal traits. 2. Manners and morals. 3. Economic conditions. 4. Social classes. 5. Gods and religion. 6. Magistrates and chiefs. 7. Citizenship and popular bodies. 8. Administration of justice. 9. Intertribal relations. B. What statements concerning the early Germans in pages 42-52 of this chapter seem drawn from other sources than Caesar and Tacitus? Comparison of Germans and Romans. From this and the preceding chapter find as many points of resemblance or of difference as you can between the life and civilization of the Germans and the inhabitants of the Empire, and set these points down opposite each other in parallel columns. German and Norse Mythology. C. M. Gayley, Classic Myths in English Literature (Boston, 1893), pp. 30-34 (pars. 13-14) and pp. 366-403 (pars. 177-86). K. Gjerset, History of the Norwegian People (New York, 191 5), vol. I, pp. 92-109. H. A. Guerber, Myths of Northern Lands (1895), any chapter. Early German Religion. C. F. Keary, The Vikings in Western Christendom (1891), chap. II. Early German Law. See exercise on the Salic law at the close of chap. vil. General Reading on the Germans. Gummere, Germanic Origins (New York, 1892). Ulfilas. Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia. The Mounted Nomads, or Huns. T. Peisker, The Asiatic Background, in the Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, pp. 3 2 3-59-