Pomerelia was settled by West Slavic tribes in the 7th and 8th century.

Other West Slavic tribes such as the Milceni settled east of them.

The tribal union of the Antes probably included some neighbouring West Slavic tribes.

Numerous West Slavic tribes had inhabited most of the area of present-day Poland since the 6th century.

From around 600 onwards, West Slavic tribes known as the Milceni and Lusici settled permanently in the region.

The surrounding area was populated by West Slavic tribes and Bardo's castellans were Polish knights.

West Slavic tribes ("Wends") had settled in the Germania Slavica region from the 7th century onwards.

In the 10th century, the area of future Brandenburg and Pomerania was inhabited by West Slavic tribes, collectively known as Wends.

The independent development of the West Slavic tribes was interrupted in the 10th century by the expansion of the German state of East Francia.

After AD 500 West Slavic tribes gradually repopulated the area, which became a forest borderland between Pomerania and Greater Poland.

The name is attested only among West Slavic tribes of the 12th century, hence it is speculated that he was not a very important or very old deity.

The march was settled by various West Slavic tribes, the most important being Polabian Slavs tribes in the north and Sorbian tribes in the south.

West Slavic tribes settled in the regions of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia during the 6th century, and have inhabited the regions since then, eventually absorbing pre-Slavic populations.

In 845 the Bavarian Geographer made a list of West Slavic tribes who lived in the areas of modern day Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark:

In the later half of the 12th century, the German priest Helmold described in his work Chronica Slavorum, beliefs and customs of several West Slavic tribes who were still polytheists at the time.

The original settlers, as in most of former East Germany, were in fact, not Germans at all, but West Slavic tribes, known as Sorbs or Wenden, who arrived between the sixth and eighth centuries.

Radegast is mentioned by Adam of Bremen in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum as the deity worshipped in the Lutician (West Slavic tribes) city of Radgosc.

In the High Middle Ages, Germans from what is today Northwestern Germany, Danes, Dutch and Flemish people migrated to Pomerania during the Ostsiedlung, gradually outnumbering and assimilating the West Slavic tribes of the Rani, Liutizians and Slavic Pomeranians.