[gothic-l] Visigothic King Fridigern

[Tore Gannholm]

>Oskar,
>
>What is the proof that the there was not a Visigothic
>king (Athanarich) around 366 AD. I think you have
>to go back to the early history of the Visigoths and
>their kingdom. It could be even earlier for the Visigoths.
>Athanarich followed his Visigothic father Rotesthes.
>My claim is that between 340 and 366 AD a Visigothic
>kingdom started to form.
>
>But then came the Hunnic attack. The Huns under their
>Khan Balamber crossed the Volga in 376 AD and attacked
>the Goths. The Gothic military leaders Hammo and Sarvs
>were defeated and the Rosomons and the Alans were
>subjected. Ermanarich is defeated on the River Don.
>E. must be regarded as an Ostrogothic king.
>
>I believe Jordanes desribes it in the following way:
>
>Sunilda's brothers blame Ermanarich for her death (the
>famous binding together with wild horses and ripped apart)
>"and olunged a sword in Ermanarich's side. Enfeebled by
>this blow he dragged out a miserable existence in bodily weakness.
>Balamber, king of the Huns, took advantage of his ill health
>to move an army into the country of the Ostrogoths, from whom
>the Visigoths had already seperated because of some dispute."
>
>According to Jordanes the Huns then subjected the Ostrogoths.
>The Visigoths asked Emperor Valens to let them settle
>in Thrace or Moesia.
>
>Gothically
>
>Bertil
>


Bertil,
When was the word Visigoth invented? I think it is very late. After
various groups crossed Danube and formed on Roman soil.
Tore
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