Terry Jones' Barbarians - The Savage Goths

"Roman writers have left us with an image of the Barbarians of the north - the Germans, Dacians and Goths - as hairy primitives. It was an image reinforced by the wholesale massacre of a Roman army in Germany in 9AD, and sealed by the so-called Sack of Rome in 410. Terry Jones reveals that far from being brutal savages, the Barbarians of the north were in fact much admired by Rome for their fighting prowess; they became crucial to the defence of the Roman Empire - and would eventually became as Roman as the Romans themselves."