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  • Gothic names are easier because we know the naming patterns two words, basically, like Ala-reiks, Hadu-swinth - with these I could easily construct a whole tribe of them.

    Character names in historical fiction Carla 2006

  • Thiuda-reiks (the people-ruler), a name which Latin historians, influenced perhaps by the analogy of Theodosius, changed into

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

  • Kingsley guesses very ingeniously, that Odoacer's assumed title, King of nations, may have been the Gothic _Theode-reiks_, the very name of Theodoric.

    Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

  • He therefore knew perfectly well that _Theodoric_ was simply a Greek adaptation of the Gothic name _Theode-reiks_, _theod_ meaning people, _reiks_, according to Grimm, _princeps_ {1}.

    Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

  • As it is useless now to try to revert to the philologically correct Thiuda-reiks, I use that form of the name with which I suppose English readers to be most familiar -- namely, Theodoric.]

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

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