The Franks recovered from their panic, the Alamanni turned to flight.
And as soon as he had cried thus, the Alamanni turned and fled.
Like most heathen people the Alamanni clothed their gods in their own flesh and blood.
The Alamanni were defeated, and fled to the Mœotian marshes.
The Bavarian law, therefore, is later than that of the Alamanni.
He also stopped a band of the Alamanni who wished to invade Italy.
Reports of two such speeches to soldiers; the first, by Alamanni, is wonderfully fine and worthy of the occasion .
There were numerous battles between the Ripuarians and the Alamanni; and the memory of one fought at Zlpich has come down to us.
But it was not long before both the Alamanni and the Franks again became troublesome in the Rhine valley.
The name Alamanni is in this case not to be taken in an ethnographical but in a geographical sense.
name of a Suebic tribe or confederation that settled in Alsace and part of Switzerland (and source of French Allemand "German, a German"), from Proto-Germanic *Alamanniz, probably meaning "all-man" and denoting a wide alliance of tribes, but perhaps meaning "foreign men" (cf. Allobroges, name of a Celtic tribe in what is now Savoy, in Latin literally "the aliens," in reference to their having driven out the original inhabitants), in which case the al- is cognate with the first element in Latin alius "the other" and English else.
