Whilst those of Cantabria were always a proudly independent people, thanks in part to the near-impassable mountainous country that separates that land from old Hispania proper, the Visigoths recognised that these hardy, resourceful people would be of great value as friends rather than implacable enemies. Whilst the Cantabrians do not wholly trust their outwardly benevolent neighbours - for they, like the Bretened, had already escaped a barbarous Germanic people, the Anglo-Saxons - the savage attentions of the Khthones, the Atalantes and the Byzantii are not to be underestimated, and they may need the strength of the eagles yet.
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