Indian Sculpture c13.76

c13.76

the *Goths*, the *Vandals*, the *Gepidae*, the *Burgundians*, the *Alemanni*, wasted each other's strength. By exerting their own valour, they were rendered incapable of defending their respective countries from the *Huns*, who were now become the masters of the greatest part of Germany. These last were a people of Scythian extraction, who had been driven from the frontiers of China by the *Sienpi*, and had wandered through the vast deserts of Tartary, till they reached the banks of the Volga. Their numbers were immense, and their ferocity was such as to strike terror into the most warlike nations of the North.