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Eastern Germanic tribe (first mentioned in Plin. HN 4,99; etymologically linked with ^* burgund -- ‘the high-lying’), possibly originating from the island of Bornholm; from the 2nd cent. BC, they settled in the western part of eastern Pomerania, in the 2nd cent. AD in central northern Germany between the Oder and the Vistula. Hypothetically linked with the Luboszyce culture [1]. In the 3rd cent., they migrated to the south-west and, together with the Vandali, were defeated by Aurelius  Probus in around AD 280 (on the river Lech?). At the end of the 4th cent.…