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See also: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 Goths, belonged to the Amali See also:family, and was the son of Achiulf. His name occurs as Ermanaricus (Jordanes), Airmanareiks (See also:Gothic), Eormenric (A. See also:Sax.), Jormunrek (Norse), Ermenrich (M.H. See also:German). Ermanaric built up for himself a vast See also:kingdom, which eventually extended from the See also:Danube to the Baltic and from the See also:Don to the See also:Theiss. He drove the See also:Vandals out of See also:Dacia, compelled the See also:allegiance of the neighbouring tribes of See also: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. In his later days the west Goths threw off his yoke, and, on the invasion of the See also:Huns, rather than See also:witness the downfall of his kingdom he is said by See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus to have committed See also:suicide. His See also:fate See also:early became the centre of popular tradition, which found its way into the
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narrative of Jordanes or Jornandes (De See also:rebus geticis, See also:chap. 24), who compared him to See also:Alexander the See also: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 horses on See also:account of her See also:husband's traitorous conduct. Her See also:brothers Sarus and Ammius sought to avenge her. They succeeded in wounding, not in killing the Gothic king, whose See also:death supervened in his one See also:hundred and tenth See also:year from the See also:joint effects of his See also:wound and fear of the Hunnish invasion. This is evidently a See also:paraphrase of popular See also:story which sought to See also:supply plausible reasons for Ermanaric's end. In German See also:legend Ermanaric became the typical cruel See also:tyrant, and references to his crimes abound in German epic and in Anglo-Saxon See also:poetry. He is made to replace See also:Odoacer as the enemy of See also:Dietrich of See also:Bern, his See also:nephew, and his See also:history is related in the Norse Vilkina or Thidrekssagd, which chiefly embodies German tradition. His evil See also: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 of their treasure, the Brisingo meni. Sonhild or Svanhild becomes the wife of Ermanaric, and the See also:motive for her See also:murder is replaced by an See also:accusation of See also: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 by way of See also:Germany. In the V olsunga See also:Saga Svanhild is the daughter of See also:Sigurd and See also:Gudrun. She is given in See also:marriage to the Gothic king Jormunrek (Ermanaric), who sends his son Randver as See also:proxy wooer in See also:company of Bicci, the evil counsellor. Randver is persuaded by Bicci to take his See also: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 of the See also: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. On the way they slay their See also:half-See also: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 is told with See also: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 of Hamtheow, Gudrun's See also:Chain of Woe, and in the See also:prose See also:Edda.
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