10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ERMANARIC»
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Ermanaric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Widsith: A Study in Old English Heroic Legend
(I) ERMANARIC AS THE FOE OF THE HUNS. It has recently been argued by
Heusler (Berl. Sitzungsberichte, xxxvil, 925, 1909 ; Hoops Reallexihon, Attila, p.
138) that the story of Ermanaric as the typical foe of the Huns had no continued ...
Raymond Wilson Chambers, 2010
2
Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies ...
r\AEITHER CASSIODORUS nor Jordanes had created the >^4 VGothic king
Ermanaric out of thin air. The basic assumption is that, having been mentioned by
Ammianus Marcellinus, Ermanaric must have been a historic king who had ruled
...
Arne Søby Christensen, 2002
the Rosomoni as a people or a clan that "Ermanaric had, among others, in his
following." Accordingly, the Rosomoni — whose name, like that of the Heruli,
could mean "the fast," "the impetuous" — would be identical with the Heruli or
their ...
4
The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth ...
BARNISH: In epic and heroic sources, Ermanaric has the reputation of a great
empire builder. The sources of this kind can from time to time reflect the historical
reality as with Attila and Charlemagne, but from time to time not, and are perhaps
...
S. J. B. Barnish, Federico Marazzi, 2007
5
The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture
Obviously it was Jordanes' source Cassiodorus, not an illiterate Goth, who made
this comparison and called Ermanaric "the ruler of all nations of Scythia and
Germania." Jordanes listed thirteen peoples which the Amalung ruler Ermanaric
...
Otto Maenchen-Helfen, 1973
6
A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes: Characters in Medieval ...
... horse * Cu Chulainn Durmart * Yder Eaumont * Roland Eberhard V, count of
Wiirttemberg * Renaut de Montauban Eckart * Ermanaric Eckewart * Siegfried
Ector * Arthur, Merlin Edica * Theodoric the Great Edward, King of England *
Robin ...
Willem Pieter Gerritsen, Anthony G. Van Melle, 2000
7
Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf
In fact, the detail that Wudga and Hama fight together with six other men “of þam
heape” suggests a battle waged against Attila rather than an expedition of “exiles
” against Ermanaric. Unfortunately, the view of Hama as a fugitive “robbing” ...
8
Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages
The fact that the early Attila and Ermanaric legends as preserved in the north do
not show any trace of a Theodoric legend could strengthen the hypothesis of a
secondary and literate origin of the exile legend. Originally unassociated with ...
Alger Nicolaus Doane, Carol Braun Pasternack, 1991
9
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
Malone disagreed; he refused to see any allusion here to Ermanaric's future
slaying of his lovely bride on trumped-up charges of adultery with her stepson,
declaring that as far as we can tell the Ealhhild of the Old English poem was on
the ...
Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge, 2013
10
A Preface to the Nibelungenlied
In 5 5 1 the Goth Jordanes reduced twelve books of Cassiodorus' Gothic history
to a slender epitome entitled Getica. In the course of this history he relates the
circumstances surrounding the death of the Ostrogothic king Ermanaric in the
year ...
Theodore Murdock Andersson
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Their chief Ermanaric committed suicide, thereby contributing an early thread to Germanic legend. Their people reeled into the western Goths ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 15»
