Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe

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2. They are two different people:

In Swedish prehistory, the Vendel Period (550-790) comes between the Migration Period and the Viking Age. The migrations and upheaval in Central Europe had lessened somewhat, and two power regions had appeared in Europe: the Merovingian kingdom and the Slavic princedoms in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. A third power, the Catholic Church, had begun to expand its influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendel_Period

The Vandals were a large East Germanic tribe or group of tribes that first appear in history inhabiting present-day southern Poland. Some later moved in large numbers, including most notably the group which successively established kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula and then North Africa in the 5th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals

I thought the same thing too and then looked them up.