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We aren't even shure if Goths were Germanics instead of another Iranian people as Alans, Sarmatians amd Scythians. Saint Isidore at Etymologies didn't put them among Germans at all. And that says a lot about how they self identified.

The truth is that during Renaissance and Modern Era, Germanics pushed a strong we wuzzing narrative on the Goths that was never put into revision given the nordicist chauvinistic speech of the academia.

Spaniards never cared if northern europeans we wuzzed the Goths at all given Spanish identity is strongly based around Catholicism and Latin culture as well. Also Northerners were always seen as friendly neighbors and brothers in faith. Although from the North, the feeling was not reciprocate if you read the English, German, Scandinavian, and French writers of the time.

But that would be the point, the Spanish have never had the chauvinism and malice of their northern neighbors at the moment of writing history. The Italians and Greeks did, which is why it didn't take long for them to squash a lot of the nonsense the Germans were saying about Hellenes and Romans.