Only fictional evidence suggests any German haven for expelled Moriscos

Evidence

As compared with the Muslim world, European countries took in few of the refugees. In northern Europe, indications are sparse indeed. For Germany, the only evidence is from fiction, but ought not to be discounted totally. When Cervantes had Sancho Panza meet his former neighbor Ricote, Ricote had returned to Spain in order to dig up his buried treasure under cover of being a member of a group of German pilgrims. Ricote’s wife and daughter were supposed to have ended up meanwhile in Algiers. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1633

Categorization

• SEED: Fiction as sole historical evidence — an essay angle on how Cervantes’ invented Ricote episode functions as documentation of an undocumented migration.
• XREF: Cervantes’ Ricote mirrors the return-to-bury-treasure trope that connects to gold-hoarding in Fagles-translated epic wanderings and to The Namesake’s themes of return.