Note 21 — Chapter IV · THE LATER YEARS OF JUSTINIAN’S REIGN [535-565 A.D.]
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[Hodgking calls the Heruli “a perpetual puzzle to ethnologists,” and quotes Zeuss,j who calls them “the most unstable of German tribes.” Their seat at the moment in question is also variously guessed at, Hodgkin inclining to Hungary. This fatal battle took place about 508. The Lombards were Arians,—how they were converted we do not know,—and they brought into Italy a hierarchy of bishops, priests, and deacons.]