 All three of these texts follow a tradition of seeing the Gepids as "offshoots or close relatives of the Goths".There is little direct evidence for the original language of the Gepids, but they were clearly Gothic in culture during the period when the Romans reported upon them.The 6th-century Byzantine writer, Procopius, listed the Gepids among the "Gothic nations," along with the Vandals, Visigoths, and Goths proper, in his "Wars of Justinian", "sharing the same language, white bodies, blond hair, and Arian form of Christianity".