Political Vocabulary

[ualarauans]

Hi Michael

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
>
> - thiudans - Only one name comes to mind, that of Theudis (iirc),
> Theodoric's viceroy in Spain. The word obviously derives from
> 'thiuda' (a or the people). Any associations with Ostrogotha, 
Cniva,
> etc. are purely speculative, and any associations with Ermanericus
> must explain '-ricus' instead of '*-theudanus.'

I am not sure they must. Names ending in –reiks don't necessarily 
imply that the person in question was titled reiks. There could 
easily be bearers of such names who were not kings, and there 
certainly were kings without –reiks or any other royal suffix in 
their names. *Airminareiks could have been called thiudans as well 
as his father *Agiwulfs. The most which a –reiks name could imply 
was probably that its bearer was aristocratic (that's in fact what 
reiks means as a common noun).

Ualarauans






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