See also:

• ERMANARIC (fl. 350-376)

ERMANARIC (fl. 350-376)  , See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Goths, belonged to the Amali See also:

• FAMILY

family, and was the son of Achiulf . His name occurs as Ermanaricus (Jordanes), Airmanareiks (See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic), Eormenric (A . See also:

• SAX, ANTOINE JOSEPH

Sax.), Jormunrek (Norse), Ermenrich (M.H . See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German) . See also:

• ERMANARIC (fl. 350-376)

Ermanaric built up for himself a vast See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom, which eventually extended from the See also:

• DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube to the Baltic and from the See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don to the See also:

• THEISS (Hungarian, Tisza; Lat., Tisia or Tissus)

Theiss . He drove the See also:

• VANDALS (Lat. Vandili or Vandilii)

Vandals out of See also:

• DACIA

Dacia, compelled the See also:

• ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance of the neighbouring tribes of See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Goths, procured the submission of the Herules, of many Slav and Finnish tribes, and even of the Esthonians on the shores of the Gulf of See also:

• BOTHNIA, GULF OF

Bothnia . In his later days the west Goths threw off his yoke, and, on the invasion of the See also:

• HUNS

Huns, rather than See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness the downfall of his kingdom he is said by See also:

• AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS

Ammianus See also:

• MARCELLINUS, ST

Marcellinus to have committed See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide . His See also:

• FATE

fate See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early became the centre of popular tradition, which found its way into the See also:

• ERMELAND, or ERMLAND (Varmia)

ERMELAND 749 narrative of Jordanes or Jornandes (De See also:

• REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ")

rebus geticis, See also:

• CHAP

chap . 24), who compared him to See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander the See also:

• GREAT

Great and certainly exaggerated the extent of his kingdom . He is there said to have caused a certain Sunilda or Sanielh to be torn asunder by See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild horses on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband's traitorous conduct . Her See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers Sarus and Ammius sought to avenge her . They succeeded in wounding, not in killing the Gothic king, whose See also:

• DEATH

death supervened in his one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred and tenth See also:

• YEAR

year from the See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint effects of his See also:

• WOUND (O. Eng. wund,connected with a Teutonic verb, meaning to strive, fight, suffer, seen in O. Eng. winnan, whence Eng. " win ")

wound and fear of the Hunnish invasion .

This is evidently a See also:

• PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase of popular See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story which sought to See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply plausible reasons for Ermanaric's end . In German See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend Ermanaric became the typical cruel See also:

• TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

tyrant, and references to his crimes abound in German epic and in Anglo-Saxon See also:

• POETRY

poetry . He is made to replace See also:

• ODOACER, or ODOVACAR (c. 434-493)

Odoacer as the enemy of See also:

• DIETRICH, CHRISTIAN WILHELM ERNST (1712-1774)

Dietrich of See also:

• BERN (Fr. Berne)

Bern, his See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, and his See also:

• HISTORY

history is related in the Norse Vilkina or Thidrekssagd, which chiefly embodies German tradition . His evil See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, Sifka, Sibicho or Bicci, brings about the death of his three sons . The Harlungs, Imbrecke and Fritile,' are his nephews, whom he has strangled for the See also:

• SAKE

sake of their treasure, the Brisingo meni . Sonhild or Svanhild becomes the wife of Ermanaric, and the See also:

• MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

motive for her See also:

• MURDER

murder is replaced by an See also:

• ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation of See also:

• ADULTERY (from Lat. adulterium)

adultery between Svanhild and her stepson . The story was already connected with the Nibelungen when it found its way to the Scandinavian See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north by way of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . In the V olsunga See also:

• SAGA (literally a story committed to writing)

Saga Svanhild is the daughter of See also:

• SIGURD (Sigur6r)

Sigurd and See also:

• GUDRUN (KUDRUN)

Gudrun . She is given in See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to the Gothic king Jormunrek (Ermanaric), who sends his son Randver as See also:

• PROXY (short for " procuracy ")

proxy wooer in See also:

• COMPANY

company of Bicci, the evil counsellor . Randver is persuaded by Bicci to take his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride for himself . Randver is hanged and Svanhild trampled to death by horses in the See also:

• GATE

gate of the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle . Gudrun eggs on Sorli and Hamdir or Hamtheow, her two sons by her third husband, Jonakr the Hun, to avenge their See also:

• SISTER

sister .

On the way they slay their See also:

• HALF

half-See also:

• BROTHER

brother Erp, whom they suspect of lukewarmness in the cause; arrived in the See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall of Ermanaric they make a great slaughter of the Goths, and hew off the hands and feet of Ermanaric, but they themselves are slain with stones . The See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale is told with See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations by Saxo Grammaticus (Historia Danica, ed . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, p . 408, &c.), and in the Icelandic poems, the See also:

• LAY

Lay of Hamtheow, Gudrun's See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

Chain of Woe, and in the See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• EDDA

Edda .