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Ermanaric

American  
[er-man-uh-rik] / ɛrˈmæn ə rɪk /

noun

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


Ermanaric British  
/ əˈmænərɪk /

noun

  1. 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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Ermanaric, Attila, and Theodoric are all brought into the same Niblung story, a story widely known in different forms, though it was never adequately written out.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.

“Otacher” replaces Ermanaric as his adversary in the Hildebrandslied, which relates how thirty years after the earlier attempt he reconquered his Lombard kingdom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The relations of Achilles to his surroundings in the Iliad, of Attila and Ermanaric to theirs, are freely conceived by the several poets, and are intelligible at once, without reference to anything outside the poems.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.

Ermanaric built up for himself a vast kingdom, which eventually extended from the Danube to the Baltic and from the Don to the Theiss.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The heroes of the old time before Ermanaric and Attila were not without their poets, but of what sort the poems were in which their praises were sung, we can only vaguely guess.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.

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