'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.'鈥業n 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].'鈥楩ig. 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 鈥楬istorical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages' (1796).