Gothic/East Germanic words for Life Guard or Royal Guard?

[daniel_lans]

Thanks, those were the Roman units in Rome. But surely the Gothic 
Kings must have had their own Gothic Palace Guards in Toulouse and 
Ravenna?

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
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> For Theodoric:
> 
> Amory, p. 92
> 
> "The imperial palace soldiers, the scholarii, domestici and  
> silentarii, continued to exist. Procopius claims that Theodoric  
> reduced these regiments to ceremonial funcions, but he claims the  
> same, falsely, about the East at this period. ..."
> 
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:44 PM, daniel_lans wrote:
> > If I remember correctly this term (a Latinized remnant of the old
> > lingo) doesn't appear until late 7th century. I was looking for
> > something more contemporary with the Regnum Tolosanum and/or
> > Theodoric the Great, when Gothic is still spoken. I suppose 
andbahts
> > is earlier still?
> >
> 
> 
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