[gothic-l] Re: Tribes in Ostrogothia

[fericzobor]

--- In gothic-l at y..., george knysh <gknysh at y...> wrote:
> ...
> *****GK: According to Maenchen-Helfen's "The World of
> the Huns" pp. 164-168, the Hunnic horde of the
> Bittugures joined Theodoric in Moesia in 488 and
> accompanied the Ostrogoths to Italy. They seem to have
> had their own "regulus", one Ragnaris (a Germanic
> name).*****

It is interesting the fact that the leader of the Hunic Bittugures has
a Germanic name, because the name of the tribe is Bulgar-Turkic (it
could mean "five tribes", cf. Onogur "ten tribes", Kutrigur [from
*Tukrigur] "nine tribes", Utrigur "30 tribes" etc., all being names of
tribal unions resulted from the splitting of the Hunic empire after
Attila's death).
Anyway, the case is not singular: Attila himself and his uncle Rugila
had also Germanic names, isn't it?

Francisc


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