[gothic-l] An Erulic Royal Genealogy

[Bertil Haggman]

When the recent debate started on the Eruli Troels did put
up a number of royal Eruli names on the list.

Underneath is an attempt to create an Eruli royal genealogy based
on Procopius and the runestones on the Lister Peninsula in western
Blekinge province of Sweden.

Eruli Kings

*Hrothawulf(a)R, died around 505 AD

His daughter *Silingu, married to a Lombard king

*Hok(a)R (Oxos, see underneath), died around 545 AD

Datios, which is a non-Nordic name, is unknown but had a
brother *HahawardhuR (?) (=Aordos, see underneath)

Haeruwulf, one of the kings during the remigration to Thule
in 512 AD

Hathuwolf and Hariwolf, Kings of the Eruli in the Vaerend-Lister
kingdom in Scania Province, Blekinge Province and Vaerend District,
Smaaland province. The Stentoften, Gummarp and Istaby runestones
as well as the now disappeared Flegehall inscription were erected
some time during the period 512 - 545 AD.

There are two names that do not sound very Nordic: Oxos and Aordos.
Datios no doubt is a transcriptional mistake made by some scribe.
There is no way this name can have a Nordic origin. Oxos could be
traced to HokaR/Hocr. It could have been short for for instance
Hildehoc or Godehoc or adopted from a similar variation. The name
Hoc also can be found in Beowulf. But he and his son Hnael lived
at least a century befor HokaR.

Aordos is more complicated. A- can possibly stand for the not unusual
name element *Haha- (compare Burgundian Hanhavaldus and Haisl on
the Roek stone). -ordos could be connected to *wardur (see Anglo-Saxon
Hahweard-Hahwart. W is often transcribed by -o- in classical Greek, compare
*Od(a)wakrs = Odoacer. Also the great number of vocals may in the
original have called for a name changed to be more easy to read for
Greeks.

Erulically

Bertil







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