Dębczyn culture

The culture was superseded as the result of the later migrations of West Slavs, in particular of the Pomeranians (Slavic tribe).

The culture existed until the first quarter of the sixth century, when burial of the dead in grave fields stopped.

[2][3] The Dębczyn group might comprise the archaeological remnants of Tacitus' Lemovii, probably identical with the Glommas, a tribe mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith, which may be connected to the area of the river Glomma in Norway.

[5] These are believed to have been the neighbors of the Rugians, a tribe dwelling at the Pomeranian coast before the migration period.

Germanic sagas report a battle on the isle of Hiddensee between king Hetel (Hethin, Heodin of the Glommas) and Rugian king Hagen, following the abduction of Hagen's daughter Hilde by Hetel.

Wielbark culture ceramic vessels. Museum of History and Ethnography in Chojnice , Poland
The pink area is the Debczyn culture; the red area is the extent of the Wielbark culture in the first half of the third century. The green area is the Przeworsk culture , and the yellow area is a Baltic culture (possibly the Aesti ). The purple area is the Roman Empire