The Harii (Latinized West Germanic "warriors") are a Germanic tribe attested by Tacitus in his first century CE book Germania, who Tacitus describes as painting themselves and their shields black, and attacking at night as a ghostly army, much to the terror of their opponents. Theories have been proposed connecting the Harii to the Einherjar of much later Norse mythology, and to the tradition of the Wild Hunt. Germania Regarding the Harii, Tacitus writes in Germania: As for the Harii, quite apa… (More on Harii)