Avarpi

Avarpi

The Avarpi or Auarpoi or Avarni were Germanic tribe attested in Ptolemy's Geography. The attested Greek is Auarpoi. Avarpi is a scholarly transliteration into Latin, with some using Avarni on the assumption that the name refers to the Varni of Mecklenburg. However, Ptolemy uses Farodeinoi for Varini[citation needed] and clearly says that the Auarpoi are next to the Teutonikai and between the Sueboi and the Farodeinoi. This location is not precise, but is somewhere in the Pommern/Propommern region.

Further reading

  • Ptolemy, Geography, 2.10.
  • Schütte, Gudmund (1917), Ptolemy's maps of northern Europe, a reconstruction of the prototypes

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