turicum

Updated: May 7, 2025

Gottfried von Viterbo , in the second half of the twelfth century, expresses his difficulties in similar words. All these chroniclers who handed down the historical traditions of Germany were High-Germans, and thus it has happened that in Germany Theodoric the Great became Dietrich, as Strataburgum became Strassburg, or Turicum, Zurich.

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