The Reudigni were one of the Nerthus-worshipping Germanic tribes mentioned by

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prior to the arrival of the Daner recorded by Jordanes. Schütte suggests that their name lives on in the names Randers and

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''(Original Latin)'' "Reudigni deinde et Aviones et Anglii et Varini et Eudoses et Suardones et Nuithones fluminibus aut silvis muniuntur. Nec quicquam notabile in singulis, nisi quod in commune Nerthum, id est Terram matrem, colunt eamque intervenire rebus hominum, invehi populis arbitrantur. ..." --Tacitus, ''
Germania Germania ( ; ), also called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman province of the same name, was a large historical region in north ...
'', 40.

''(English translation)'' "There follow in order the Reudignians, and Aviones, and Angles, and Varinians, and Eudoses, and Suardones and Nuithones; all defended by rivers or forests. Nor in one of these nations does aught remarkable occur, only that they universally join in the worship of ''Herthum ( Nerthus)''; that is to say, the Mother Earth."--Tacitus, ''
Germania Germania ( ; ), also called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman province of the same name, was a large historical region in north ...
'', 40, translated 1877 by Church and Brodribb.Tacitus', ''Germania'', 40; translation from ''The Agricola and Germania'', A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb, trans., (London: Macmillan, 1877), pp. 87- 10, as recorded in the ''Medieval Sourcebook

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