Unit cards: Rhovanion image - DCI: Last Alliance mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Glad you like them L. We went with a "northern European Dark Age"-apperance in general, and they are fun to field across Middle-earth, I dare say ^^

Not far fetched, yet far older in fact, hehe. Christopher Tolkien notes in 'Unfinished Tales; Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan; Note #6':

"It is an interesting fact, not referred to I believe in any of my father's writings, that the names of the early kings and princes of the Northmen and the Éothéod are Gothic in form, not Old En­glish (Anglo-Saxon) as in the case of Léod, Eorl, and the later Rohirrim.

Vidugavia is Latinized in spelling, representing Gothic Widugauja ("wood-dweller"), a recorded Gothic name, and simi­larly Vidumavi Gothic Widumawi ("wood-maiden").
Marhwini and Marhari contain the Gothic word marh "horse," corresponding to Old English mearh, plural mearas, the word used in The Lord of the Rings for the horses of Rohan; wini "friend" corresponds to Old English winë, seen in the names of several of the Kings of the Mark.

Since, as is explained in Appendix F (II), the language of Rohan was "made to resemble ancient English," the names of the ancestors of the Rohirrim are cast into the forms of the earliest recorded Germanic language."

An end note of my own is that the Rhovanion Northmen were naturally not Goths, just as Rohirrim are not Anglo-Saxons - JRR did not wrote allegories in such a manner, he however used it to linguistically [and as one of many parts of historical cultural inspiration] make his world more credible, when "translating it into English".
Yet it's inspirational for the kind of worl we find his Middle-earth was imagined by the author himself. :)

I understood what you meant, and did not deny it. Indeed those were interrelated regions in olden times, and we've taken as much inspiration from Rus as from Saxons and Goths, inspiration to offer something that's none of those, but something of their own :)