ERMANARIC

ûrmănˈərĭk, d. c.375, king of the Ostrogoths. He extended his power over other barbarian tribes and thus built up in eastern Europe an empire stretching from the Dneister River north to the Don and east to the headwaters of the Volga. He committed suicide as his empire was being overrun by the Huns. He was a legendary figure in medieval European literature, where his name appears variously as Ermenrichus and Hermeneric; in old Norse literature he was known as Jörmunrekkr.

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books on: Ermanaric  - 39 results

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The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Book by Yitzhak Hen, Matthew Innes; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Middle Ages--Historiography--Congresses
...is, for Fulco and Arnulf the story of Ermanaric was a well-known morality tale, current...books in which Arnulf could read about Ermanaric. This was a rare word in the Carolingian...11 On the Ermanaric legend, see H. Beck, Ermanaric: Sagengeschichtliches...
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Old Norse Images of Women
Book by Jenny Jochens; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
Subjects: Goddesses, Mythology, Norse, Old Norse Literature--History And Criticism, Women In Literature, Women--Mythology, Women--Scandinavia--History
...from the Hunnish aggression to revolt against Ermanaric. The furious Ermanaric had a certain woman, Sunilda, torn to pieces...treachery. Seeking revenge, her brothers wounded Ermanaric, who spent his last years suffering from the...
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Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
Book by W. P. Ker; Macmillan, 1897
Subjects: Epic Poetry--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Romances--History And Criticism
...severity, as in the lay of the death of Ermanaric; sometimes with lyrical effusiveness...of Angantyr. The poem of the death of Ermanaric is a version of the story told by Jordanes...of Sigurd and Gudrun, was wedded to Ermanaric, king of the Goths. The kings counsellor...
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Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
Book by W. P. Ker; Dover, 1957
Subjects: Epic Poetry--History And Criticism, Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Romances--History And Criticism
by the horses of Ermanaric, and of the vengeance taken by her...If Jordanes knew a Gothic poem on Ermanaric and the brothers of Suanihilda, that...as the Northern lay of the death of Ermanaric, of the same compass as Waltharius...
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The Paths of History
Book by Igor M. Diakonoff; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Historiography, History--Periodization, History--Philosophy
...most famous of the Ostrogothic kings was Ermanaric; tales of him later spread among all...even including the Anglo-Saxons. But Ermanaric also encountered an enemy which proved...the rest moved towards the Caucasus . Ermanaric, failing to achieve victory over the...
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journal articles on: Ermanaric  - 5 results

 
 
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Widsith and the Anthropology of the Past
Journal article by John D. Niles; Philological Quarterly, 1999
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Anthropological research--Analysis, Folklore--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Widsith (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...for special attention is Eormanric (or Ermanaric),(3) the legendary king of the Goths...gathered. (5) The main allusion to Ermanaric comes in a twenty-line passage (88...Scandinavian tradition, the hapless woman whom Ermanaric, the Iormunrekr of Norse sources, punishes...
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Amalasuntha, Procopius, and a Woman's Place
Journal article by A. Daniel Frankforter; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Women--History
...distinct people late in the fourth century under the leadership of Ermanaric, the first of their kings to exercise some authority over most branches of their tribe. Ermanaric, however, was defeated by the Huns, and his people scattered...
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The Man Who Knew It All: Gudbrandur Vigfusson in Oxford
Journal article by Magnus Fjalldal; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 81, 2009
Subjects: Litterateurs--Biography, Vigfusson, Gudbrandur--Biography
...impossible answers. In the first essay ("Sigfred-Arminivs"), he wonders why various heroes of Germanic legend, such as Ermanaric, Attila, and Theodoric, are based on actual historical figures whereas Siegfried, the most famous of them all, has no...
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Old English Prose
Journal article by N. R. Ker; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 3, 1990
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Philology, Motion Pictures
...for example, attributed to the ninth-century skald Bragi, relates the climactic moments of three tales: the death of Ermanaric at the hands of Svanhilds brothers; the abduction of Hild by Heoden, resulting in an everlasting battle; and Thors rowing...
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The Myth of the Anglo-saxon Oral Poet
Journal article by John D. Niles; Western Folklore, Vol. 62, 2003
Subjects: History, Literary criticism, Oral tradition, Poetry, Poets
...historical Theodoric put under the yoke of servitude. The second Gothic king to be mentioned in the poem is Eormanric, the Ermanaric of Latin chroniclers, who ascribe his death to the year 375. In Deor this preeminent king is remembered as a cruel tyrant...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ermanaric  - 2 results

 
 
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Ermanaric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERMANARIC urman rik, d. c.375, king of the Ostrogoths. He extended his power over other barbarian tribes and thus built up in eastern...
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Ostrogoths
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Visigoths , or West Goths, moved further west of them. By c.375 the Huns conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom ruled by Ermanaric , which extended from the Dniester River, north and east to the headwaters of the Volga River. The Ostrogoths were subject...


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