"Fig. 3 shows a Vandal. He is distinguished from the others by his helmet, decorated on two sides with sharp points, and a cloak (chlamys) fashioned in the manner of the Romans. His shield is made of wood.". "In the opinion of Schloezer, the Vandals gave birth to the Goths. According to other writers, the two peoples were mixed together. They lived north of the Danube, in Moravia and Hungary, ravaged the Gauls, and founded in north Africa an empire that Belisarius destroyed under the emperor Justinian in 533.". "Fig. 4 shows a Gepide. The Gepides, who took their origin from the Goths, lived around the mouth of the Vistula and founded an empire in Trajan's Dacia until it was destroyed by the Lombards in 565.". The Gepide wears a helmet, breastplate and thigh armour, carries a lance with a spiked head and a fearsome curved sword. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (