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The Chatti successfully resisted incorporation into the . According to Tacitus in his book Germania (chapter 30), they were disciplined warriors famed for their infantry, who (unusual for Germanic tribes) used trenching tools and carried provisions when at war. Their neighbours to the north were the Usipi and Tencteri . The Chatti eventually became a branch of the much larger neighboring Franks and were incorporated in the kingdom of Clovis I , probably with the Ripuarians , at the beginning of the 6th Century . They are mentioned in the Old English epic Beowulf as ''Hetwaras''. In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid -- subsequently called St. Boniface , Apostle of the Germans -- proselytizing among the Chatti, felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak , near Fritzlar , as part of his efforts to compel the conversion of the Chatti and the other northern German tribes to Christianity. "Chatti" eventually became "Hesse" through a series of sound shifts. CHASUARII The Chasuarii were a Germanic tribe mentioned by Tacitus in the '' Germania ''. According to him, they dwelt 'beyond the Chamavi and Angrivarii ', who dwelt on the lower Rhine river. Many, therefore, believe the tribe to have inhabited the modern region of Hannover . Some take the name 'Chasuarii' to mean 'Dwellers on the Hase {Link without Title} ', a tributary to the Ems . The 2nd Century geographer Claudius Ptolemy mentions that the 'Kasouarioi' lived to the east of the Abnoba mountains, in the vicinity of Hesse . Many historians are of the opinion that the Chasuarii were the same as the people called the ' Chattuarii ' mentioned by several authors. |
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