Name← Previous revisionRevision as of 16:50, 28 October 2026 Line 25: Line 25: Some medieval authors conflated the ethnonyms ''Vandals'' and ''Veneti'', applying both to [[West Slavic peoples]] and giving rise to the term ''Wends'', which came to denote various Slavic-speaking groups and is still used of the [[Lusatians]]. Modern scholarship, however, derives ''Wend'' from ''Veneti'' and does not equate the ''Veneti'' with the ''Vandals''.[[Annales Alamannici]], 795 AD[[Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum]] by [[Adam of Bremen|Adam Bremensis]] 1075 adRoland Steinacher "[http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c61705/DISSERTATION-Volltext.pdf Studien zur vandalischen Geschichte. Die Gleichsetzung der Ethnonyme Wenden, Slawen und Vandalen vom Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070119061857/http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c61705/DISSERTATION-Volltext.pdf |date=2007-01-19 }}", 2002{{cite journal|last=Lenček|first=Rado L.|author-link=Rado Lenček|year=1990|title=The Terms Wende-Winde, Wendisch-Windisch in the Historiographic Tradition of the Slovene Lands|journal=Slovene Studies|volume=12|issue=2|doi=10.7152/ssj.v12i1.3797|issn=0193-1075|doi-access=free}} Some medieval authors conflated the ethnonyms ''Vandals'' and ''Veneti'', applying both to [[West Slavic peoples]] and giving rise to the term ''Wends'', which came to denote various Slavic-speaking groups and is still used of the [[Lusatians]]. Modern scholarship, however, derives ''Wend'' from ''Veneti'' and does not equate the ''Veneti'' with the ''Vandals''.[[Annales Alamannici]], 795 AD[[Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum]] by [[Adam of Bremen|Adam Bremensis]] 1075 adRoland Steinacher "[http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c61705/DISSERTATION-Volltext.pdf Studien zur vandalischen Geschichte. Die Gleichsetzung der Ethnonyme Wenden, Slawen und Vandalen vom Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070119061857/http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c61705/DISSERTATION-Volltext.pdf |date=2007-01-19 }}", 2002{{cite journal|last=Lenček|first=Rado L.|author-link=Rado Lenček|year=1990|title=The Terms Wende-Winde, Wendisch-Windisch in the Historiographic Tradition of the Slovene Lands|journal=Slovene Studies|volume=12|issue=2|doi=10.7152/ssj.v12i1.3797|issn=0193-1075|doi-access=free}} The name of the Vandals has been connected to that of [[Vendel]], the name of a province in [[Uppland]], Sweden, which is also eponymous of the [[Vendel Period]] of Swedish prehistory, corresponding to the late [[Germanic Iron Age]] leading up to the [[Viking Age]]. The connection is considered tenuous at best and more plausibly the result of chance, though [[Scandinavia]] is considered the probable homeland of the tribe prior to the [[Migration Period]].{{cite web|url = http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53282b41b47fc407a900034a|title = Vandali (Vandals) (Germans): Incorporating the Asdingas & Silingi|work = Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes|date = 31 December 1999|publisher = English Place-name Society|access-date = 10 June 2022|archive-date = 19 November 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211119003759/http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53282b41b47fc407a900034a|url-status = live}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=January 2026}} The name of the Vandals has often been associated with [[Vendel]], a province in [[Uppland]], [[Sweden]], which also gives its name to the [[Vendel Period]] of [[Swedish prehistory]], a phase corresponding to the late [[Germanic Iron Age]] that preceded the [[Viking Age]]. The connection supposedly lies in the fact that Vendel is the original homeland of the Vandals, prior to the [[Migration Period]], and preserves their tribal name in the form of a toponym.{{Cite web |last=References |first=Owen Jarus In |date=2022-08-30 |title=Who were the Vandals, the 'barbarians' who sacked Rome? |url=https://www.livescience.com/who-were-the-vandals |access-date=2026-10-28 |website=Live Science |language=en}}{{cite web|url = http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53282b41b47fc407a900034a|title = Vandali (Vandals) (Germans): Incorporating the Asdingas & Silingi|work = Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes|date = 31 December 1999|publisher = English Place-name Society|access-date = 10 June 2022|archive-date = 19 November 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211119003759/http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53282b41b47fc407a900034a|url-status = live}} Other possible places of origin for the Vandals in Scandinavia are [[Vendsyssel]], in [[Denmark]], and [[Hallingdal]], in [[Norway]].{{cite book|last1=Ulwencreutz|first1=Lars|title=Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V|date=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|page=408}} ==Language and classification== ==Language and classification== {{Main|Vandalic language}} {{Main|Vandalic language}}