Amalric is a personal name derived from the tribal name Amal ( referring to the Gothic Amali ) and ric ( Gothic reiks ) meaning " ruler, prince ".

Grimm traces the etymology of the name to * balþaz, whence Gothic balþs, Old English bald, Old High German pald, all meaning " bold, brave ".

However, the name of the king is indeed Gothic and probably genuine.

Gothic has no direct testimony of * albs, plural * albeis, but Procopius has the personal name Albila.

The name Freki can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * frekaz, attested in Gothic faihu-friks " covetous, avaricious ", Old Norse frekr " greedy ", Old English frec " desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious " and Old High German freh " greedy ".

Even in relatively new story collection translated as Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales ( from 1984 ), the editor used the name „ Фантастический мир русской романтической повести “ ( The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story / Novella ).

A compound name, Gut-þiuda, at root the " Gothic people ", appears in the Gothic Calendar ( aikklesjons fullaizos ana gutþiudai gabrannidai ).

Procopius interpreted the name Visigoth as " western Goths " and the name Ostrogoth as " eastern Goth ", reflecting the geographic distribution of the Gothic realms at that time.

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi-Greuthungi than the late third century.

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there, by evidence of forest-related names among the Tervingi, and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi – Greuthungi than the late 3rd century.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

It may be connected with the root of break, for its early uses are confined to broken pieces or bits of bread, the Latin crustum, and it was not until the 12th century that it took the place — as the generic name for bread — of hlaf ( in Gothic: modern English loaf ), which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name.

The name of a in the Gothic alphabet is ahsa.

The first literary reference to the name Mo ( u ) ſs ( ß ) is from 1390 " Gothic Minuscule ", and by then the town had become a commercial center with craftsmen and mills.

In the real world, Radagast or Rodogast is extant as a variant of Radagaisus, the name of a Gothic warlord who led an invasion of Italy in 401.

The Old Norse name Skaði, along with Sca ( n ) dinavia and Skáney, may be related to Gothic skadus, Old English sceadu, Old Saxon scado, and Old High German scato ( meaning " shadow ").

The Gothic form of the name would have been Þiudareiks, which was Latinized as Theodericus.

Theodoric II ( Gothic: Þiudareiks II ), Teodorico in Spanish and Portuguese ( died 466 ) was the eighth King of Visigoths from 453 to 466.

* 370-Wulfila translates the Bible into Gothic, the first Bible translation done specifically for missionary purposes

The cognate Gothic translates both " mood, spiritedness " and " anger ".

The name is said to stem from the Gothic Bairika, which translates as " Little Bear ".

The necromantic change from the palace at Sparta to Faust's Gothic castle directs us to the aesthetic meaning of the myth -- the translation of antique drama into Shakespearean and romantic guise.

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

He starts, despite of shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.

Meanwhile, several Germanic tribes were converted to Arian Christianity by the missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible into the Gothic language.

Among other elements, Ann Radcliffe also introduced the brooding figure of the Gothic villain, which developed into the Byronic hero.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

The themes of the literary Gothic have been translated into other media.

This setting of the novel, a castle or religious building, often one fallen into disrepair, was an essential element of the Gothic novel.

Guided by the works of authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë, the Female Gothic permitted the introduction of feminine societal and sexual desires into Gothic texts.

The decision of Female Gothic writers to supplement true supernatural horrors with explained cause and effect transforms romantic plots and Gothic tales into common life and writing.

Transmuting the Gothic novel into a comprehendible tale for the imaginative eighteenth-century woman was useful for the Female Gothic writers of the time.

Support for the Gothic chieftains diminished as refugees headed into Thrace and towards the safety of the Roman garrisons.

The continued spread of Christianity, and the foundation of national churches, led to the translation of the Bible — often beginning with books from the New Testament — into a variety of other languages at a relatively early date: Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Persian, Soghdian, and eventually Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Nubian.

He witnessed Belisarius ' entry into the Gothic capital, Ravenna, in 540.

By one of Athalaric's own additions to the decree, it was decided that if a disputed election was carried before the Gothic officials of Ravenna by the Roman clergy and people, three thousand solidi would have to be paid into court.

There, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language.

After Alaric's death, Visigothic nobles spirited his heir, the child-king Amalaric, first to Narbonne, which was the last Gothic outpost in Gaul, and further across the Pyrenees into Hispania.