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Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Amals: Middle High German: Amelunge, Old Norse: Aumlungar, Old English: Amulinga in Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius. [1] The Gothic Amal dynasty, to which Theodoric the Great and Ermanaric belonged. Name probably derived from Gothic *amals (bravery, vigor). [1]
The Onomastics of the Gothic language (Gothic personal names) are an important source not only for the history of the Goths themselves, but for Germanic onomastics in general and the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic Heroic Age of c. the 3rd to 6th centuries. Gothic names can be found in Roman records as far back as the 4th ...
Cassiodorus who wrote down the first version used the Old Testament as a model, but he included authentic Gothic elements like the name Oium for what today is Ukraine, and haliurun(n)ae, which is a Gothic word but with a Latin ending.
Goth A crude person, lacking culture or refinement; an obsolete term, originally from the East Germanic tribe of Goths that sacked Rome in 410. [7] The term Gothic for high medieval architecture was originally a perjorative term used during the Renaissance for styles considered archaic and barbaric.
In Spanish the Gothic name survives in the word godo, meaning 'noble' or 'rich'. [3] In the Canary Islands, Chile, Bolivia, Cuba and Ecuador, it is or has been a pejorative for the Peninsulares (coming from the Spanish part of the Iberian Peninsula), [ 69 ] who would claim to have pure noble Gothic blood as opposed to the dubious pedigree of ...
The Gothic War culminated in the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the Romans were badly defeated and Valens was killed. [175] [176] Following the decisive Gothic victory at Adrianople, Julius, the magister militum of the Eastern Roman Empire, organized a wholesale massacre of Goths in Asia Minor, Syria and other parts of the Roman East ...
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