Fritigern

At last their leader Fritigern met a huge Roman army in battle outside Adrianople.

superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

Valens lay dead on the field of Adrianople, and Fritigern the Goth had the only organized body of troops between the Huns and Rome.

superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

Fritigern, hoping to carve a Visigothic empire out of the Roman provinces, ravaged Thrace for two years but could not take Adrianople.

2. The Visigoths 2001

The Visigoths, under Fritigern, defeated and killed Valens near Adrianople, thereby making the first decisive break in the Rhine-Danube frontier.

2. The Visigoths 2001

In earliest times they sang of the deeds of their ancestors in strains of song accompanied by the cithara; chanting of Eterpamara, Hanala, Fritigern, Vidigoia and others whose fame among them is great; such heroes as admiring antiquity scarce proclaims its own to be.

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

Now it came to pass in that troublous time that Lupicinus, the Roman general, invited Fritigern, a chieftain of the Goths, to a feast and, as the event revealed, devised a plot against him.

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

Dividing the Gothic army, Fritigern set out to plunder

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

Their princes and the leaders who ruled them in place of kings, that is Fritigern, Alatheus and Safrac, began to lament the plight of their army and begged

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

But Fritigern, thinking 136 evil came to the feast with a few followers.

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

He gave gifts to King Athanaric, who had succeeded Fritigern, made an alliance with him and in the most gracious manner invited him to visit him in

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes