Orcadians (XVI) in La Peninsula Iberica

As about 10% of the population of Madrid is non-Spanish, and about 50% of the babies born are of non-Spanish mothers, the garden variety Spanish is starting to have, once more, identity complexes. The latest craze is to find out Visigoth family origins, that is, some indication that one is not a Jew, a South American immigrant or a Moroccan Muslim, but pure racial German. For example, it is widely believed that the family name Guzmán comes from the German Guttman, which could well be Jewish, but it was decided that it is Germanic. The pic shows Saint Hermenegild, one Visigoth king and Catholic saint, whose name means, how else, ermen gild - a lot of money. A Spanish-Goth commenter writes:

Hidalgo era completo Hidalgott, o sea hijo del godo, en los archivos de la Chancilleria en Oviedo descansan cerca de 30.000 archivos de apellidos de origen godo, bajo la ley de sangre impuesta en España desde el siglo XV, entre ellos Sepúlveda, Burgos, Covarrubias, Olavarria, Reimer o Reimers, Irala, Bau, Baus, Klinger, Ibarguren, Uriburu, por muy vascos que suenen estos últimos son de origen germano. etc.

Mi familia por ejemplo, mi abuelo más especificamente conserva el certificado de la Orden de Alcántara de sus atepasados como Caballeros Godos, de hecho mi apellido español se debe a un pueblo y una torre que pertenecía a mi linaje en Cantrabria, aún hoy existe la torre medieval on el escudo familiar.

If the reader wonders how could people in the 16th Century establish Goth genealogy, when the Goths disappeared by complete mixing around the 6th Century, well, that is nothing, people is establishing TODAY Gothic genealogies, a thousand four hundred years after the last Goth-speaking Goth with four Goth grandparents in Spain died. But I am sure Dienekes will soon invent a computer program able to calculate to the third decimal point the percentage of Gothic, Jewish, Basque, etc. blood running in a Spaniard's veins. It is not important, but Visigoths came from the Crimean peninsula in Ucraine and never passed through Germany. They hated and fought the Franks, that is, Germans.