Rugini

The Rugini were a pagan tribe living in or near present day northern Germany in the 9th century. They were only mentioned once, in a list of pagan tribes drawn up by the English monk Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica of the early 8th century:
In a passage about Ecgberht of Ripon, who died in 729, he mentioned that these peoples were examples of pagan peoples who the English christians could help convert to Christiantity. Noting that the English were descended from them:
Whether the Rugini were remnants of Roman-era Rugii, or living in or near one of the two regions the Romans reported them is unknown.
The term Rugini has also been interpreted as the first mention of the Slavic Rani , who in the Middle Ages dwelled on the isle of Rügen.