On the Antiquities of Prussia

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF PRUSSIA BY ERASMUS STELLA LIBANOTHANUS.

In the time when Valentinian reigned over the Romans, the Alan people, northern neighbors of the Prussians, taking up arms against the Roman Empire, were, after long incursions into the borders of the empire, suppressed by the Sicambri, in which war the Sicambri won liberty for themselves and their descendants. The Alans who survived the slaughter, a portion having slipped through the borders of the empire, arrived as far as the Spains, where they had joined themselves to the Goths warring there; having finally taken up residences there, they called themselves by the confused name of the two nations, Gotthialanias, as if the seats of the Goths and Alans. But the weaker part, which had remained at home and, having performed the slaughter, had returned to its fatherland, having been stripped especially of its band of youth, and not trusting itself sufficiently in its own seats, with wives and children and the whole multitude of servants, withdrew to the neighboring Prussians. Bringing with them all their household goods, both in carts and wagons, and also their cattle, from the produce of which this nation mostly lives, they had committed themselves entirely to the faith and protection of the Prussians. Nor...