Index

The term ‘barbarian’ occurs too frequently in the text to be included comprehensively in this index, and entries are given only for specific topics in relation to discussion ‘barbarians’ not otherwise specified with a particular identity; further entries will be found, again with refer- ence only to specific topics, under the headings of the principal barbarian peoples discussed in this book. Page ranges for chapters devoted to the principal narratives examined above are also not given; rather, I provide only references to particular topics, as readers can easily find the pages devoted to those works by consulting the table of contents. Index entries for a selection of modern scholars whose work has been particularly useful or influential provide references only to explicit discussions of their work or citations of particularly important or influential arguments, not to all citations of their scholarship above.

Ablabius, Ablavius 48n36, 50, 51, 59 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (asc) 187, 189, 191, Aeneas 54n63, 101–2, 106n69, 111, 112, 244 214–15, 216n162, 219 Aeneid 46n30, 105n65, 106n69, 110, 160n51, Anglo-Saxons: 166, 174, 178 conversion of 186, 188 120, 121, 137, 141–2, 143, 145n115, in the Historia Brittonum 188–9, 216 145n118, 146, 186n7 migration of to England 15n35, 184–7, Alahis 145n118 188, 189, 190, 216, 217, 255 (Lombard ruler) 119n15, 120, 121, oral traditions among 186–7, 191–2, 206, 123, 124, 128–9, 129–40, 143–4, 213n149, 216, 225–7, 230–1, 234 146, 149 paganism among 186, 188n13, 216 grave and sword of 139n94 see also Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (asc); interregnum and chaos after death of Bede; Beowulf; Historia Brittonum 145n118, 148, 208–9 Anicii 45, 63, 64 narrative of death of 132–6, 147 Aquitaine, Aquitainians 41, 45, 48n34, songs about 130–1, 137–9, 234, 251n103 73, 74, 91n240, 155–6, 158, 161, 162–3, in Widsith 140n97, 226 179, 232 Alcuin 215, 229–30, 250n102 72, 75, 76 Aldhelm of Malmesbury 177–8n129, 191n23, as barbarian attribute 2, 16 246–7 of Burgundians 163–4n64 Alexander the Great 50n47, 50–1n49, 81–2, conversion to 61–3, 73, 75–6, 141, 100, 105n65, 218, 226, 247, 252, 258n1 164n64 alliteration: of Goths 42–3, 61–3, 72, 73, 75–7, 78, in Latin texts 119, 129–30, 132–3, 79–80, 85, 92, 141, 163 177–8n129 of 141–3, 145m115, 146, 147, 151, in vernacular texts 176, 191, 193, 200, 201, 186n7 202n88, 249–50 of Theoderic the Great 237, 238, 240, Amals 43, 45, 47, 48n34, 53, 54, 56–7, 60, 61, 242 63, 64, 67n112, 90 Athanaric (Gothic ruler) 61n89, 73, 74, 75–6, Amazons 45, 49n43, 128 77n160, 82n193 Ammianus Marcellinus 14n31, 30, 32–3, 40, Atlaqviða 150n50, 171, 173 44n19, 48n36, 54n63, 106–7 see also Edda (‘Elder’ or ‘Poetic’) Amory, Patrick 8n15, 10n18, 15n34, 19, 24n52, Attila (Hun) 54n65, 155–7, 159, 161, 162, 163, 41n8, 42n10, 51n50, 53n61, 56n70, 56n72, 171, 172, 173, 180, 239n63 67n112, 68n115, 161n55 Audoin (Lombard king) 129–30, 140n97, 226

306 Index

Aurelius Victor (historian) 31, 40n2, 93n1, paganism in 197–200, 201n85, 202–3, 185n5 207–8, 210m132, 210n134, 211 (Lombard king) 7, 120, 122, 144, problematisation of the pagan past in 145–7, 148, 149n131 183, 208–11, 219–21, 255–6, 266n11 Arianism of 142n104, 147 and Scandinavian history and mythology wooing of and marriage to Theudelinda 160, 212–5 119n15, 120, 121, 136, 137, 138n91, 138n92, Sigemund in 194, 203, 204–7, 208n122, 139n97 210n133, 213, 215 Avars 120, 145n118, 158, 161–2n57, 239, 240, summary of 193–7 241n75 and vernacular biblical verse 201–2, see also Huns 214 Weland/Wieland/Vǫlundr in 174, 213 barbarians: and Widsith 226 and Arianism 2, 16 Bernlef 233 in classical antiquity 11n22, 12n24 Boethius 61, 226, 238n54, 240, 242n76 marriages of with Romans 13–14 Braulio 69, 70n122 Roman conception of, in late antiquity Breviarum of Eutropius, see Eutropius; of 3, 11–12 Festus, see Festus as Roman military commanders 13–14 bridal-quest narratives 176 as Roman soldiers 13 Britons, Trojans origins of 188 see also Anglo-Saxons; Burgundians; Burgundy, Burgundians 8, 21n45, 22, 24n52, ; Getica, barbarians in; Goths; 97, 161, 162, 217, 224, 265 Historia Gothorum, barbarians in; Historia legendary narratives about 160, 161–2, Langobardorum, barbarians in; Isidore of 168n86, 171, 182n145, 214, 226, 236, 248, Seville: barbarians, his definition of; 249n98, 253–4 Lombards and Lombards 119n15, 122n30 Battle of Châlons 84, 87, 161 origins of in Scandinavia 244–5 see also Huns religion of 163–4n64 Bede 28, 142, 143n106, 185n5, 189, 222, 238, as Trojans 106–7n71 240, 242n76 in Waltharius 156, 162, 163n64, 174, on early Anglo-Saxon history 185, 188, 176, 179 216, 246, 247, 252 see also Edda (‘Elder’ or ‘Poetic’); Historia Ecclesiastica of 29, 30, 185, 187, Nibelungenlied 188, 246 Paul the Deacon’s knowledge of 118, Caesar, see Julius Caesar 121n27, 141 Carolingian empire 95, 162n58, 246n89 Beowulf 4, 6n13, 9, 137n88, 153, 165n72, 179, see also Carolingian Renaissance; 182n145, 223, 227, 229, 234, 257, 258n1, 260, 265 Carolingian Renaissance 2–3, 256 and Anglo-Saxon genealogies and see also Rome, significance of in early histories 214–17, 218, 219, 256 medieval culture and Christian poetry 201–2 Cassiodorus 46, 48, 53–4, 55, 58, 64, 66, dating of 193 91n241, 239 Ermanaric in 213, 243 Variae of 46n30, 53n59, 54n63, 56–8, Fight at Finnsburg in 192, 217n167, 65n110 224n2 lost Gothic history of 46–8, 49, 53–4, 55, haliurunnae in 54n65 56, 58–9, 64, 67n112 manuscript context of 193, 214n153, 218 see also De origine actibusque Getarum