Editing Beard (section)

====Celts and Germanic tribes====
[[File:Charles IV-John Ocko votive picture-fragment.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]]]]

Late Hellenistic sculptures of [[Celts]]<ref>Examples (both in Roman copies): ''[[Dying Gaul]]'', ''[[Ludovisi Gaul]]''</ref> portray them with long hair and mustaches but beardless. [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] reported the [[Celtic Britons|Britons]] wore no beard except upon the upper lip.

The [[Anglo-Saxons]] on arrival in Great Britain wore beards and continued to do so for a considerable time after.<ref>''The National Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge'', Vol III, (1847) Charles Knight, London, p. 46.</ref> Among the [[Gaels|Gaelic]] Celts of Scotland and Ireland, men typically let their facial hair grow into a full beard, and it was often seen as dishonourable for a Gaelic man to have no facial hair.<ref name="Connolly-prologue">{{cite book |title=Contested island: Ireland 1460–1630 |last=Connolly |first=Sean J |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=7 |chapter=Prologue}}</ref><ref name="Gerald">[http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf ''The Topography of Ireland'' by Giraldus Cambrensis] (English translation)</ref><ref>Macleod, John, ''Highlanders: A History of the Gaels'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1997) p. 43</ref>

[[Tacitus]] states that among the Catti, a [[Germanic people|Germanic]] tribe (perhaps the [[Chatten]]), a young man was not allowed to shave or cut his hair until he had slain an enemy. The [[Lombards]] derived their name from the great length of their beards (Longobards – Long Beards). When [[Otto the Great]] said anything serious, he swore by his beard, which covered his breast.