Taranis
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yeah about that, Vandals in medieval days were considered as Slavs, but hey, 19. century german romanticism made them Scandinavian origins, like Goths.
Its not the 19th century German romanticism but Jordanes, actually.
By the way, the classical authors (Pliny, Tacitus) consider the Vandals (as with the Burgundians and Goths) to be Germanic.
Germans in south poland, yeah, while most of east germany towns have names slavic origin.
This is true, but this is a product of the Migration Period. Before the Migration Period, the Proto-Slavs presumably lived in eastern Europe (approximately what is today eastern Poland, Belarus, and the NW Ukraine), but they did not have any direct contact with the Greeks or the Romans before the Migration Period. Its very clear that the speakers of Proto-Slavic absorbed a large amount of Germanic-speakers (and before that, had a prolonged period of contact with Germanic-speakers), in particular terminology for agriculture, cattle-keeping and trade.
Also word GERMAN isnt German at all, but latin exonym, and certainly does not specify specific ethnicity
From Latin Germania, probably meaning "neighbor".
Yes, it probably means originally 'neighbour', but the word is probably Celtic in origin (compare it with Irish 'gearr' - meaning short, and Welsh 'ger' - meaning 'near').