Harii
The Harii (West Germanic "warriors") were, according to a single brief remark by the 1st century CE Roman historian Tacitus, a Germanic people; the most powerful of the Lugian group of states (civitates), who in turn dominated a large part of the Suebian part of Germania in an area north of the Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains, in the region of present day Poland and eastern Germany. In his work Germania, Tacitus says the Harii used black shields and painted their bodies black (nigra scuta, tincta corpora), attacking at night as a shadowy army, much to the terror of their opponents.