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The Onomastics of the Gothic language ( Gothic personal names) are an important source not only for the history of the Goths themselves, but for Germanic name in general and the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic Heroic Age of c. the 3rd to 6th centuries. Gothic names can be found in Roman records as far back as the 4th century AD. After the Muslim invasion of Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in the early 8th century, the Gothic tradition was largely interrupted, although Gothic or pseudo-Gothic names continued to be given in the Kingdom of Asturias in the 9th and 10th centuries.
(Not to be confused with names inspired by the Goth subculture.)
Jordanes gives partly mythological genealogies leading up to historical 4th to 5th century rulers:
Another important source of early Gothic names are the accounts (hagiography) surrounding the persecution of Gothic Christians in the second half of the 4th century. Many of the Gothic saints mentioned in these sources bear resemblance to Syrian, Cappadocian and Phrygian names, following in the baptismal tradition of that time.
Even though the Muslim invasion of Hispania (715 AD) and subsequent fall of the Visigothic kingdom in the early 8th century caused most Gothic naming traditions to be lost, a type of Gothic or pseudo-GothicH Reichert, "Sprache und Namen der Wandalen in Afrika" in: Albrecht Greule, Matthias Springer (eds.), Namen des Frühmittelalters als sprachliche Zeugnisse und als Geschichtsquellen, 50f. naming tradition continued in the Kingdom of Asturias, which by that time had become the central driving force behind the Reconquista of Andalusia. Thus, Alfonso I of Asturias was originally given the Gothic name *Adafuns or Adalfuns, becoming one of the most popular names in the medieval Iberian kingdoms.
In France, where remnants of the old Visigothic Kingdom still remained (Septimania),Gothic names continued to be common up until the 12th century.Wolfram (1990: p. 233)
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| Balti dynasty Therving king |
| Therving king |
| king of the Ostrogoths |
| Therving king |
| Amali king of the Greuthungi |
| king of the Greuthungi |
| Visigothic king |
| Therving leader |
| martyrrecorded in the Gothic calendar fragment |
| Therving official |
| Gothic Magister militum |
| Gothic king |
| Amali king of the Visigoths |
| Gothic saio Shane Bjornlie9780520297357, University of California Press. ISBN 9780520297357 |
| Gothic leader, ancestor of Geberic |
| Balti dynasty king of the Visigoths |
| Balti dynasty king of the Visigoths |
| Saio of Theodoric and praepositus cubiculi |
| A Hunnic leader allied with the Ostrogoths |
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