Vandals in England?

[Æmeric]

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals) During the great wanderings at the end of the Roman Empire the Vandals established kingdoms in Hispania & in the Roman province of Africa, roughly corresponding to modernday Tunisia & part of Algeria. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/geofhkb.htm) Africans [meaning Vandals (by way of Ireland)] lead by their king Gormund, assisted the Saxons in the conquest of Ireland. Normally the history of England mentions Angles, Saxons & Jutes. Were the Vandals prominent in the Germanic conquest of England & if so which parts did they settle?

[Osweo]

Geoffrey is not a respected historian. It has been suggested that he wrote what he did in deliberately mockery of the vulgar tastes of his contemporaries.

He mentions 'certain books in the British tongue' that he used to compile his work, but even when it's been worked out which old texts he used, his carelessness in doing so is revealed to have been shocking!

He basically wrote fantasy fiction, using old Welsh and Classical texts to help think up names for his characters! Such a waste of an intellect... :(


EDIT: I should add, members of tribes other than the main three you mention WERE definitely present, even if only as odd individuals here and there. Placename evidence often reveals them, where the chronicles are silent. Frisians are common, and shouldn't surprise, but the Taifali and Suebi in Tealby and Swaffham are more curious. There are others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.