Sentence:  Some fifteen hundred years ago, the <WSD>Teuton</WSD> tribes of Northern Europe held an annual ceremony....We can't presume to understand all that this specific ritual meant to the <WSD>Teutons</WSD> nor precisely what their expectations might have been. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of an early (Germanic) tribe living in (Jutland) noted in historical writings by Greek and Roman authors.