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Quote[/b] (Oberiko @ May 24 2003,22:16)]In my reading though, I've yet to find what nations/factions were on Germany's non-Roman front. The Norse?
The ancestors of the Norse would have also been a Germanic tribe. They would be included in "Germania", though no such nation ever existed. As far as Germania's borders, and who were across those borders:

The various peoples of Germany are separated from the Gauls by the Rhine, from the Raetians and Pannonians by the Danube, and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mountains - or, where there are no mountains, by mutual fear. The northern parts of the country are girdles by the sea, flowing round broad peninsulas and vast islands where a campaign of the present century has revealed to us the existence of some nations and kings hitherto unknown. The Rhine rises in a remote and precipitous height of the Raetian alps and afterwards turns slightly westward to flow into the North Sea. The Danube issues from a gentle slope of moderate height in the Black Forest, and after passing more peoples than the Rhine in its course discharges itself into the Black Sea through six channels - a seventh mouth being lost in the marshlands.

Tacitus, Germania