What is Ingwine in Beowulf?
Stripped of its Latin ending, the Ingvaeon are the Ingwine, “friends of Ing” familiar from Beowulf, where Hrothgar is “Lord of the Ingwine”—whether one of them or lord over them being ambiguous. Where did the Alemanni come from? The Alemanni (also known as the Alamanni and the Alamans, meaning “All Men” or “Men United”) were…