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Migration Period

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The Migration Period, also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.

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  • A multitude, like which the populous North
    Pour’d never from her frozen loyns, to pass
    Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous Sons
    Came like a Deluge on the South, and spread
    Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands.
  • Ravaged cities rolling smoke
    Thick on cornfields dry and black,
    Wave his banners, bear his yoke.
    Track the lightning, and you track
    Attila. They moan: ’tis he!
    Bleed: ’tis he! Beneath his foot
    Leagues are deserts charred and mute;
    Where he passed, there passed a sea.
      Attila, my Attila!