Talk:Athanaric
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This page is idential to: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Athanaric . I don't know which came first. - IstvanWolf 05:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Athanaric was not king/judge of the Visigoths, but of the Terwingi. After the demise of the Terwingi at the end of the 4th century the Visi or Vesi emerged. Much later ancient scholars created the term Visigoths analogue to the name Ostrogoths. Again, Athanaric would not have known anything about Visigoths of whom this article claims he was king.
- Unless someone responds to user 193.134.254.145's concerns above I will replace all references to the [[Visigoth|Visigoths}} with references to the Thervingi and port the Fritigern vs. Athanaric? section from the Fritigern article. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Fritigern was a king, so there is no reason to include him in the preceded by section. Jacob Haller 03:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
