Vandals

(van'dalz.) (Antiq.) A ferocious race,who are believed to have come originally from Scand in a via. They seem to have differed only in name from the Goths, whose language they spoke. They settled in the north of Germany, between the Elbe and the Vistula. During the 4th and 5th centuries they became very powerful; and, under Gens eric, their king, overran Spain, Gaul, and Italy. They subsequently established themselves in Africa; but were eventually subdued by Belisarius, the celebrated Roman general in the reign of Just in i an, who took their king Gelimer prisoner, and carried him to Constantinople in triumph. [s. 1]