Germanic Tribes: Invasion in Rome

No culture on earth has a longer—or richer—tradition of drinking than the Germanic world. 🍻📜 And no, that doesn’t mean “mindless drunkenness.” From modern statistics—where Germanic countries still rank among the highest in beer consumption per capita—back through the Viking Age, and even earlier to the Germanic tribes described by Roman authors, one thing is constant: drinking was central to life. But it wasn’t about excess. It was about bonding. It was about social trust. It was about honorin