More honorable to plunder than to work for Germanic tribes in antiquity
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Tacitus's Germania XIV says this:
In the place of pay, they are supplied with a daily table and repasts; though grossly prepared, yet very profuse. For maintaining such liberality and munificence, a fund is furnished by continual wars and plunder. Nor could you so easily persuade them to cultivate the ground, or to await the return of the seasons and produce of the year, as to provoke the foe and to risk wounds and death: since stupid and spiritless they account it, to acquire by their sweat what they can gain by their blood.
Another translation:
Feasts and entertainments, which, though inelegant, are plentifully furnished, are their only pay. The means of this bounty come from war and rapine. Nor are they as easily persuaded to plough the earth and to wait for the year's produce as to challenge an enemy and earn the honour of wounds. Nay, they actually think it tame and stupid to acquire by the sweat of toil what they might win by their blood.
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Depends on the Germanic group and what is meant by "plunder".
The Vikings, for example, originally came to plunder and burn Christian churches in Britain and the mainland as revenge for Charlemagne's abuse of pagan polytheists. They of course deemed fighting for their faith more honourable than" working " ie plowing fields.
However, this is quite a broad question considering the Germanic peoples are a wide and diverse conglomeration.
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