slavery was actually not common in medieval europe slavery was actually not common in medieval europe as compared to the roman empire ancient greece the byzantine empire eygytian empire or asian societies preceding unsigned comment added by any real numbers of amount of people enslaved by germanic males are there any sources that actaully have proof of the amount of people enslaved by real ethnic germanic males it seems that if vikings enslaved people in ireland or some slavic country then celtic and slavic historians hype that up by way of not giving the actual number of celts or slavs enslaved by real germanic males but instead just give the subterfugal celts and slave were enslaved get some significant numbers on this page or i will start deleting some of it preceding unsigned comment added by