"...aurochs..." (p. 528) were giant oxen.
A "...[w]isent-..." (p. 347) was a European wood bison.
"...Arminius..." (p. 527) was a Cherusci chief who defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest but was later defeated by Gemanicus, then assassinated by other Germanic chiefs.
Time Patrol Specialist Janne Floris lived among a Germanic tribe, the Frisii, from 22 to 37 AD. Her cover identity was that of a young Chasuarian who, widowed by a Cherusci attack, had fled with two of her husband's men to Frisian territory, bringing with them enough wealth to enable her to marry Garulf, a village headman's son, after which her "servants" left on a "venture" and never returned.
She bore two children, making sure both that they would live and that she would bear no more. Garulf's others were by a farmhand girl. When Garulf, hunting, was gored and killed by an aurochs bull, she left to grieve alone and never returned, knowing that her teenage sons would be raised by Garulf's brothers.
She was there because the Patrol wanted knowledge of the far western Germanic range during the period when Roman influence was replacing Celtic and also during the upheavals following the murder of Arminius.
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