A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

> the Spanish for “bandit,” “helmet,” and “truce.”

If they are bandido, casco, tregua they are identical to the Italian bandito, casco, tregua. The only difference is a d/t. Actually in Italy a cyclist and a worker wear a casco, but a soldier wears an elmetto.

I googled the etymology of casco and it comes from Latin but it came to Italy from Spain a few centuries ago. So I wonder what other word for helmet they use in Spain, that originated in the Goth language.

Why did people doubt this? It doesn’t sound so ridiculous that a Germanic-speaking people would come from Scandinavia, which has a island called Gothland, a province East Gothland and West Gothland, a city called Gothenburg and people called Geats (probably related to Goths).

Of all the mythic origin stories about the globe, Goths originating in Scandinavia is one of the less exciting ones to be proven correct.

DNA from unearthed car sized scales proving a giant snake carved the rivers and shape of the land would be something ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyl

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