Tacitus

Tacitus is the Roman historian attested in the Gesta Danorum as a source for the customs of the Germanic peoples. Saxo notes that Tacitus expressly recorded the Sitones, a tribe or confederacy within the compass of his Germania, as exceptional for being ruled by a woman (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, Customary Law). This reference positions Tacitus as an authority on the social organization of the northern peoples.