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The '''Sitones''' were mysterious, or mythical, [[Germanic people]]. They are only mentioned in Tacitus (unless the name is connected with the Swedish [[Sithun]]):
The '''Sitones''' were mysterious, or mythical, people in somewhere in Northern Europe. [[Germanic people]]. They are only mentioned by [[Cornelius Tacitus]] in 97 CE. Tacitus considers them as a [[Germanic people]].


"Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones. They resemble them in all respects but one - woman is the ruling sex. That is the measure of their decline, I will not say below freedom, but even below decent slavery."
"Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones. They resemble them in all respects but one - woman is the ruling sex. That is the measure of their decline, I will not say below freedom, but even below decent slavery."


This may be a memory of a period in which the [[Suiones]] (Swedes) were ruled by a certain queen.
This may be a memory of a period in which the [[Suiones]] (the [[Svear]]) were ruled by a certain queen. Another speculative hypothesis is that the Sitones were living somewhere in present-day Western [[Finland]], and were actually a [[Finnic]] group.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Disas saga]]
*[[Disas saga]]



[[Category:Ancient Germanic peoples]]
[[Category:Ancient Germanic peoples]]

Revision as of 13:08, 4 September 2006

The Sitones were mysterious, or mythical, people in somewhere in Northern Europe. Germanic people. They are only mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in 97 CE. Tacitus considers them as a Germanic people.

"Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones. They resemble them in all respects but one - woman is the ruling sex. That is the measure of their decline, I will not say below freedom, but even below decent slavery."

This may be a memory of a period in which the Suiones (the Svear) were ruled by a certain queen. Another speculative hypothesis is that the Sitones were living somewhere in present-day Western Finland, and were actually a Finnic group.

See also