Migration Period

The Migration Period, also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms. Quotes A multitude, like which the populous NorthPour’d never from her frozen loyns, to passRhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous SonsCame like a Deluge on the South, and spreadBeneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; rev. 1674), Book I Ravaged cities rolling smokeThick on cornfields dry and black,Wave his banners, bear his yoke.Track the lightning, and you trackAttila. They moan: ’tis he!Bleed: ’tis he! Beneath his footLeagues are deserts charred and mute;Where he passed, there passed a sea.  Attila, my Attila! George Meredith, "The Nuptials of Attila", IX, in Ballads (1887)