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Aleksandr Nikolaeviҫ Veselovskij: Iz istorija romana i povesti, II. Epizod o Tavr i Menii v apokruficekoj jitii sv. Pankratija. In: Sbornik otdelenija russkago jazyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk. Band 40. Sankt Petersburg 1886, S. 65–80
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Jörg Jarnut: Thüringer und Langobarden im 6. und beginnenden 7. Jahrhundert. In: Helmut Castritius u. a. (Hrsg.): Die Frühzeit der Thüringer (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsband 63). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2009,
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Wolfram Brandes: Thüringer/Thüringerinnen in byzantinischen Quellen. In: Helmut Castritius u. a. (Hrsg.): Die Frühzeit der Thüringer (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsband 63). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009,
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Wilhelm Heizmann, Matthias Springer, Claudia Theune-Vogt, Jürgen Udolph: Thüringer. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005,
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Jörg Jarnut, "Thüringer und Langobarden im 6. und beginnenden 7. Jahrhundert", in Helmut Castritius; Dieter Geuenich; Matthias Werner (eds.).
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Jörg Jarnut: Gausus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 10, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998,
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Ian Mladjov, "Barbarian Genealogies", in Prokopios; H. B. Dewing (trans.); Anthony Kaldellis (eds.),
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The Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina: Greek Text, English Translation and Commentary
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Wolfram Brandes, "Das Gold der Menia: Ein Beispiel transkulturellen Wissenstransfers",
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and turns base metals into gold. The entire legend is used to explain how the city of
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and from there various Germanic epic traditions, such as the Icelandic
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name, signifying collar, ring or necklace, and by extension treasure.
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Only one other person is known by the name Menia, from a 9th-century
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As an ancestor of Lombard royalty, Menia seems to have entered the
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By a relationship with an unnamed man of the Gausian family—a
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Die Frühzeit der Thüringer: Archäologie, Sprache, Geschichte
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Index

Thuringians
Gausian dynasty
Lombards
polyptych
Abbey of Saint-Remi
Germanic

Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani
Bisinus
Raicunda
Wacho
Frankish
Venantius Fortunatus
Hermanafrid
Bertachar
Radegund
Baderic
Basina
Gregory of Tours
Geat
Audoin
dukes of Friuli
Alboin
oral tradition
Poetic Edda
Grottasöngr
Sigurðarkviða hin skamma
kenning
Byzantine
Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina

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