ost-gothic

Updated: May 23, 2025

They have changed even his name, and as the children in the schools of Germany still speak of him as their Dietrich von Bern, let him be to us too Dietrich, not simply the Ost-gothic Theoderic, but the German Dietrich.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

I have little doubt that Kingsley's object in retaining the name Dietrich for the Ost-gothic king was much the same as Johannes von Muller's. You know, he meant to say, of Dietrich of Bern, of all the wonderful things told of him in the Nibelunge and other German poems.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

Very soon, however, when High-German became the more prevalent language in Germany, German historians knew both of the old legendary hero and of the Ost-gothic king, by one and the same name, the High-German Dietrich. If therefore Johannes von Muller spoke of Theodoric of Verona as Dietrich von Bern, he simply intended to carry on the historical tradition.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge