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I'll start with this one.
Charles the XII of Sweden. Supposed date of the engraving is 1698. The Latin reads: King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals.
How can someone be King of the Goths and Vandals in the late 17th and 18th centuries, when both were Germanic Tribes that disappeared from history about 1000 years earlier. The Vandals fell by hand of the Byzantines in the 6th/7th centuries. The last prominent presence of the Goths was the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia (there were some that survived in Crimea, known as the Crimean Goths but were mostly forgotten by the rest of the world and didn't form a Nation State). According to the official version.
What does this mean then?
Charles the XII of Sweden. Supposed date of the engraving is 1698. The Latin reads: King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals.
How can someone be King of the Goths and Vandals in the late 17th and 18th centuries, when both were Germanic Tribes that disappeared from history about 1000 years earlier. The Vandals fell by hand of the Byzantines in the 6th/7th centuries. The last prominent presence of the Goths was the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia (there were some that survived in Crimea, known as the Crimean Goths but were mostly forgotten by the rest of the world and didn't form a Nation State). According to the official version.
What does this mean then?
