Tacitus on Mannus

“In their ancient ballads, their only form of recorded history, they celebrate Tuisto, a god sprung from earth, and they assign him a son called Mannus, their progenitor, through his three sons.”

Source: The M-N- Sound · Substack “Ep 1 Using M-N-”

Tacitus’s Germania — the primary Roman source for Germanic Mannus. First-century attestation of the M-N- founding deity pattern.

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