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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I've heard about Norwegians, but I imagine that that would be near to the end of the Imperial Rome. Scandinavia remained for nearly all of the time period mostly terra ignota. They did, however, serve Byzantium.
Same as with German[ic] and Slav[ic] later.
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Please consider that my norwegian example was just made to show that the practice of hiring foreigners (non racially romans) was so widespread that even from distant and never romanized lands a trickle of soldiers could come.