[gothic-l] Surviving Ostrogoths?

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Hello Ingemar and Tore,
I concur on the whole with Tore. If you read Procopius and 
Agathias, you will find that quite a number of 
Ostrogoths were recruited into Justinian´s army 
and took part in his Persian war. Most of the 
others will have stayed in Italy and you find 
traces of their descendants in Italian charters 
up to the eighth century. Ludwig Schmidt wrote 
two articles on this theme with an identical 
title, "Die letzten Ostgoten", the last 
Ostrogoths, one in 1923 and the other in 1943. 
You will find them in Zeitschrift für 
Schweizerische Geschicht 3(1923) 443-455 and in 
Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der 
Wissenschaften Phil.hist.Kl. Jahrgang 1943 
Nr.10, 1-15. There you will find all the 
relevant material. I myself am just waiting for 
the proofs of an article I wrote on the 
relations between the Ostrogoths and Visigoths:

 Relations between Ostrogoths and Visigoths in the fifth and 
sixth centuries and the question of Visigothic settlement in 
Aquitaine and Spain. In: Integration und Herrschaft im frühen 
Mittelalter, eds.Walter Pohl und Max Diesenberger. 
Denkschriften der ÖAW. Wien (in print).

 There may have been some movement from Italy to Spain in the 
thirties and fourties of the fifth century till the death of king 
Theudegisel, whom some people identify with Theodahad's son of 
the same name, but there is no trace of a massive influx of 
Ostrogoths after 550 A.D.

Regards
             Andreas Schwarcz 
Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
Tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
Fax 0043/142-77/92-72

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