The Legio XXI Rapax was destroyed by this people's Roxolani group.
The Yancai mentioned in the Hanshu are sometimes identified as the Aorsi, a group of these people. Tacitus noted this peoples' effective use of a lance known as the "barge-pole" or kontos, which they are depicted wielding on Trajan's Column along with spangenhelms and scale armor. The Legio XXI Rapax was destroyed by this people's Roxolani group. Another group of these people was notably divided into freemen and limigantes, or serfs; that group was the Iazyges, who established a kingdom in Pannonia. These people worshipped a (*) sword stuck in the ground, which may have been the inspiration for the sword-in-the-stone myth. After displacing the Scythians in the third century BCE, these people entered Eastern Europe, causing later szlachta to believe that they were descendants of this Iranic people. For 10 points, name this nomadic people, the namesake of the pervasive lifestyle of the nobility in early modern Polish culture, as well as a possible basis for the Knights of the Round Table.
The Yancai mentioned in the Hanshu are sometimes identified as the Aorsi, a group of these people.
Sarmatians [or Sarmatae; or Sarmati; or Sauromatae; accept Alans or Alani until 'Aorsi']