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Updated: April 30, 2025
Old Ermanaric tore the traitor's wife to pieces with wild horses: but the Huns came nevertheless. A magic hind, the Goths said, guided the new people over the steppes to the land of the Goths, and then vanished. They fought with the Goths, and defeated them. Old Ermanaric stabbed himself for shame, and the hearts of the Goths became as water before the tempest of nations.
Jordanis tells the true history of Ermanaric, that great Gothic emperor whose rule from the Dnieper to the Baltic and Rhine and Danube, and long reign of prosperity, were broken by the coming of the Huns. With him vanished the first great Teutonic empire. Magic was powerful enough even to raise the dead, as was practised by the Perms, who thus renewed their forces after a battle.
But they had seen and tasted the fine things of the sunny south, and did not forget them amid the steppes and snows. At last a sore need came upon them. About 350 there was a great king among them, Ermanaric, 'the powerful warrior, comparable, says Jornandes, to Alexander himself, who had conquered all the conquered tribes around.
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