[gothic-l] Regnum Ostrogotorum Estimated

[Bertil Haggman]

Thank you for the input on further bibliographic
material on Regnum Ostrogotorum.

My addition here would be Professor Lars Hermodsson's
book on the Goths (_Goterna_). He shares of course the general view 
that it is not possible to exactly estimate the Regnum
Ostrogothorum but it is Hermodsson's view that King
Ermanarik subjugated a number of Caucasian
and steppe peoples. Information, he wrote, relates
that Ermanarik's kingdom stretched from the southern
steppes north of the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. He
saw the kingdom less than an ordinary state and more
like a loosely coordinated empire.

Ermanarik's name in Scandinavian myth is Joermunrek,
who takes revenge on one of his men, that abandoned
him, and had this man's wife, Svanhild, executed being tied
to wild horses. So epic from the Regnum Ostrogotorum
has certainly been transferred from there to Scandinavia,
most likely by Goths and Eruli who during the centuries
moved back forth from south Scandinavia to the Gothic
and Erulic kingdoms and for service in the Roman army.

Bertil Haggman


Yopu may find such an analysis in several places. Still  
fundamental are:

Irma Korkannen, The Peoples of Hermanaric.Jordanes, Getica 116. 
Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Ser.B, vol.187. 
Helsinki 1975

Gottfried Schramm, Die nordöstlichen Eroberungen der 
Rußlandgoten (Merens, Mordens und andere Völkernamen bei 
Jordanes, Getica XXIII 116). Frühmittelalterliche Studien 8(1974) 
pp.1-14

You will find a critical appaisal of the actual extent and structure of 
Ermanaric's realm in Wolfram, Die Goten, 95-98, and in

Bernhard Tönnies, Die Amalertradition in den Quellen zur 
Geschichte der Ostgoten. Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 8. 
Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 1989, pp.45-47.




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