Concentration/number of weapon types in the pre-and immidiate migration period.

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Sorry for a cut off title, I am mainly interested in the areas, Germany (inclusive of east Germans), France (inclusive of the Rhineland and Burgundy), England (includes ancient kindom of Northumbria, Dumnonia and the Cymri sp?).

After intensive reading I have come to think that Northern Germany and Scandanavia were vastly richer in quality arms and armour that souther Germany in the pre-migration (250/300-400?) and immidiate (400-550?) migration period. Through grave finds and such this has come to be my belief.
However compared to some (Watchman bowed head) I am a novice of the lowest order.

Therefore one could expect the invading "Anglo-Saxon" peoples to have been better equipped than the Lombards, Alemanni or even some Frankish tribes.

I have taken the much later occurance of the Viking invasions of Ireland, whereby the invaders greatly increased the quality and quantity of weapons, as a template for this type of thing.

Obviuosly by the time of te later Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs the Franks were the greatest producers of arms and armour in Christendom and the so called cresent of germany, the area where arms production was centered, continued to be so during the middle ages. As can be attested by the finds of such weapons all across the Western Balkans and southern Italy and even the Byantine areas of Greece. But that was at a later date.

So back on topic, is such a theory of northern German superiority in arms quality and quantity justifiable?
An what types of weapons would have been noticably superior.


Sorry for any serious spelling and grammatical mistakes.