Cultural heroes as Germanic peoples

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In context of OLB's Minerva (who had blue eyes) and Cecrops (of foreign descent), it's interesting to note the following:

1. Attila the Frisian
The medieval central European understanding of Attila differed from others by claiming him as an Frisian prince who went to conquer the Huns (The Saga of Thidrek of Bern, ch. 39).

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2. Romulus and Remulus the Franks
The learned medieval scholar Alberuni just casually makes the Romulus and Remulus, founders of Rome, of the Frankish land (Alberuni's India I, ch. XI):

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The story also gives the four symbolic colours for the end-time riders, attested from Biblical and Hindu mythologies. Among the names for olf Greco-Roman-Carolingian culture are are Rūm 'Roman', Yavana 'Greek' and 'Franks'. Alberuni knew that, from his Persian viewpoint, there was a land of Franks (Rome-France-Spain) behind the main Roman empire Byzant and Italy. Thus we can be certain he really meaned France.

3. Latinus the half-Hyperborean
This king of Italian Latin people had a mother was a Hyperborean:

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He allowed the Aeneas' Trojans to dwell in his land. Which connects to...

4. Aenes and Frigas the Germans
Hero of the Trojan war was a Germanic person: "quod Aeneas et Frigas duo fratres fueriut germani, e quibus Aeneas in Latio, Frigas regnaverit in Frigia".

5. Caesar son of Odin
According to the Anglo-Saxons elites, Odin had a son called '(Julius) Caesar'.