"The Germanic peoples are immense in body, and they are savage tribes hardened by very severe cold. They took their behavior from that same severity of climate, fiercely courageous and ever indomitable, living by raiding and hunting. There are many tribes of Germani, Differing in the color of their clothes, of mutually incomprehensible languages, and with uncertain etymologies of their names, such as the Tolosates, the Amsivari, the Quadi, the Tuungri, the Marcomanni, the Bruteri, the Chamavi, the Blangiani, the Tubantes"

"... The monstrosity of their barbarism gives a fearsome quality even to their names"
- St Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae IX.ii.97 @LunacyandClaret