East Germanic people of probable Scandinavian origin who raided Roman territory from the 3rd century, established a kingdom north of the middle Danube after the Hunnic collapse, and disappeared from records by the mid-6th century.
Their Danubian kingdom was conquered by the Lombards in the early 6th century; surviving Heruli either returned to Scandinavia (per Procopius) or entered Roman imperial service.
Covers the post-Hunnic Germanic peoples including the Heruli and their role in the transformation of the Danube region.
Discusses the Heruli as part of the broader landscape of smaller Germanic peoples in late antiquity.