Kind(er):
Virtually no particulars are known of the earliest generations of Franks.A good introduction to the Merovingian Franks is found in Gene Gurney's,"Kingdoms of Europe", on pages 52-54 :
"That race of people which had been driving the Celts westward for six orseven hundred years was finally making its way into Gaul. They had beenheld back only by Roman Skill. This race as a general name was calledTeutonic, but it divided into many different nations. The people werelarge-limbed, blue-eyed, and light-haired. They all spoke a language likerough German, and all had the same religion, believing in the greatwarlike gods, Odin, Thor, and Frey. They worshiped them at stone altars,and expected to live with them in the hall of heroes after death - thatis, all so-called who were brave and who were chosen by the 'Valkyr', or'slaughter-choosing goddess', to die nobly in battle. Cowards were sentto dwell with Hela, the pale, gloomy goddess of death. They had lived forat least five hundred years in the center of Europe , now and thenattacking their neighbors, when they were harassed by
another, fiercer race, who was pushing them from the east. The chieftribes were the Goths, who conquered Rome and settled in Spain; theLongbeards, or Lombards, who spread over the north of Italy; theBurgundians (burg or town people), who held all the country around the
Alps; the Swabians and Germans, who stayed in the middle of Europe; theSaxons, who dwelt around the south of the Baltic, and finally conqueredsouth Britain; the Northmen, who found a home in Scandinavia; and theFranks, who had been long settled on the Rivers Sale, Meuse, and Rhine.There were two tribes of Franks - the Salian, from the River Sale, andthe Ripuarian. They were great horsemen and dreadful pillagers, and theSalians had a family of kings, which, like the kings of all the othertribes, were supposed to have been descended from Odin. The king wasalways of this family, called Meerwings, after Meerwing - or Merovech -the son of Pharamond, one of the first chiefs." The Anglicized name forthe Meerwing would be "Merovingian".
Matman posted to
soc.genealogy.medieval on 28 May 1997:
Subject: Re: PHARAMOND
"Faramund is not mentioned by Roman historians of the 4-5th centuries orGregory of Tours (c.570/90), hence most modern historians omit anyreference to him as a historical person. The reason why he turns up in somany genealogies etc, is that the 8th century _Liber Historiae Francorum_(ch.5) says that Faramund was the son of Sunno and father of
Chlodio. Now Sunno is known from the earlier sources: GT II, 9 quotes (?)a Roman source which says he was one of the chieftains who invaded Gauland were defeated by the omans (c.389 AD), and elsewhere, GT reports thetradition that Meroveus was the son of Chlodio.
Historians have tended to regard Faramund as an invention to bridge thegap between Sunno and Clodio, and so establish a dubious dynasticcontinuity."
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