“When the Huns arrived north of the Black Sea in the 370s, they had displaced the Goths. Now, as they swept into the Great Hungarian Plain, they disrupted other barbarian groups: Alans, Vandals, a Germanic people known as the Suevi ” – Powers and Thrones (Dan Jones) https://bookshop.org/ebooks/quotes/59bb18d4-8c21-43af-8b30-6445c2b33f64

My grandfather’s people! The Schwebisch! (Or is that a dialect? I forget.) Living in Schwabenland, known to the rest of you heathens as Bavaria.

And, yes, as I write this, I am aware that there are those whose people come from Ghana, Nigeria, the Congo, etc., who don’t know for sure, because there’s a brick wall.

We are all descended from emperors and horse thieves. (Dammit, I just realized that’s kind of a male image. Stupid monkey brain.)