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Ermanaric

[ er-man-uh-rik ]

noun

  1. a fourth-century ruler in the Black Sea area: probably identical with Jormunrek.


Ermanaric

/ əˈmænərɪk /

noun

  1. Ermanaric?375MOstrogothicPOLITICS: hereditary ruler died ?375 ad , king of the Ostrogoths: ruled an extensive empire in eastern Europe, which was overrun by the Huns in the 370s
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Example Sentences

Contrary to historical tradition, Italy is supposed to have been his ancestral inheritance, of which he has been deprived by Odoacer, or by Ermanaric, who in his altered character of a typical tyrant appears as his uncle and contemporary.

The East Gothic dominion was now again as great in extent and far more splendid than it could have been in the time of Ermanaric.

Ermanaric and Gundahari, here called Eormanric and Guthhere, are renowned in the old Scandinavian poetry, and the old High German.

The theme of the poem is the wandering of a poet, who makes his way to the courts of the most famous kings: Ermanaric the Goth, Gundahari the Burgundian, Alboin the Lombard, and many more.

This is evidently a paraphrase of popular story which sought to supply plausible reasons for Ermanaric’s end.

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