During the later age of Germanic migrations, the Harudes do not appear in Jutland.

Some have expanded this idea into a theory that the Goths originated in Germany and entered Scandinavia in the age of Germanic migration.

People under similar names were key elements of the Germanic migrations.

Germanic migration into Roman Britannia may well have begun much earlier even than that.

In the 1st century A.D. Germanic tribes came, but moved on in the great Germanic migration to the west.

German historians of the 19th century referred to these Germanic migrations as the Völkerwanderung, the migrations of the peoples.

The region remained a part of the Roman Empire until the great Germanic migrations of the 5th century.

However, the Germanic migrations of the 5th century brought about a break with this tradition.

Rome was threatened by an enormous Germanic migration; this secured no less than six consulships for Marius, three in absentia.

However, Müller was also applying the sense of Völkerwanderung to it, which was being used of the Germanic migrations.