Etymology of "Alavivus?"

[Michael Erwin]

Can anybody reconstruct the name Latinized as "Alavivus?"

I was thinking it could be a corruption of the name Latinized as  
"Alatheus," e.g. if he had added a Gothic signature to a Latin or  
Greek diplomatic letter, and the þ was hard to read, and/or the  
readers didn't know any Gothic.
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