Editing Cimbri (section)

===Origins===
Scholars generally see the Cimbri as originating in [[Jutland]], but archaeologists have found no clear indications of any mass migration from Jutland in the early [[Iron Age]]. The [[Gundestrup Cauldron]], which was deposited in a bog in [[Himmerland]] in the 2nd or 1st century BC, shows that there was some sort of contact with southeastern Europe, but it is uncertain if this contact can be associated with the Cimbrian militia expeditions against Rome of the 1st Century BC.  It is known that the peoples of Northern Europe and the British Isles participated in annual partial population seasonal Winter migrations southward to what is now central Iberia and southern France where goods and resources were traded and cross-culture marriages were arranged.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kaul | first1 = F. | last2 = Martens | first2 = J. | year = 1995 | title = Southeast European Influences in the Early Iron Age of Southern Scandinavia. Gundestrup and the Cimbri | journal = [[Acta Archaeologica]] | volume = 66 | pages = 111–161 }}</ref>

Advocates for a northern homeland point to Greek and Roman sources that associate the Cimbri with the Jutland peninsula. According to the ''[[Res Gestae Divi Augusti|Res gestae]]'' (ch. 26) of [[Augustus]], the Cimbri were still found in the area around the turn of the 1st century AD:

{{Blockquote|My fleet sailed from the mouth of the Rhine eastward as far as the lands of the Cimbri, to which, up to that time, no Roman had ever penetrated either by land or by sea, and the Cimbri and [[Charudes|Charydes]] and [[Semnones]] and other peoples of the Germans of that same region through their envoys sought my friendship and that of the Roman people.}}

The contemporary Greek geographer [[Strabo]] testified that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the "Cimbric peninsula" (since they are said to live by the [[North Sea]] and to have paid tribute to Augustus):

{{Blockquote|As for the Cimbri, some things that are told about them are incorrect and others are extremely improbable. For instance, one could not accept such a reason for their having become a wandering and piratical folk as this that while they were dwelling on a Peninsula they were driven out of their habitations by a [[Cymbrian flood|great flood-tide]]; for in fact they still hold the country which they held in earlier times; and they sent as a present to Augustus the most sacred kettle in their country, with a plea for his friendship and for an amnesty of their earlier offences, and when their petition was granted they set sail for home; and it is ridiculous to suppose that they departed from their homes because they were incensed on account of a phenomenon that is natural and eternal, occurring twice every day. And the assertion that an excessive flood-tide once occurred looks like a fabrication, for when the ocean is affected in this way it is subject to increases and diminutions, but these are regulated and periodical.|Strabo, ''[[Geographica]]'' 7.2.1, trans. H. L. Jones<ref>As a geologist, Strabo reveals himself as a [[Gradualism|gradualist]]; in 1998, however, the archaeologist B. J. Coles identified as "[[Doggerland]]" the now-drowned habitable and huntable lands in the coastal plain that had formed in the [[North Sea]] when sea level dropped, and that was re-flooded following the withdrawal of the ice sheets.</ref>}}

On the map of [[Claudius Ptolemaeus|Ptolemy]], the "Kimbroi" are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland,<ref>Ptolemy, ''Geography'' 2.11.7: {{lang|grc|πάντων δ᾽ ἀρκτικώτεροι Κίμβροι}} "the Cimbri are more northern than all (of these tribes)"</ref> i.e., in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of [[Limfjorden]] (since [[Vendsyssel-Thy]] north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands).