This illustration depicts King Totila of the Ostrogoths on horseback in 553 AD, flanked by a Gothic capillatus on the left and a royal standard-bearer on the right, with armor reconstructed from Procopius' descriptions, from the book The Goths AD 200–700 by Raffaele D'Amato.
>>18628400Has anyone ever remarked on how stupid Gothic names sound?Totila, Wamba, Witiza, Eraric, Amalasuintha.
>>18628454Add an 'us' at the end and it sounds better
>>18628467TotilausWambausWizitausEraricusAmalasuinthaus
>>18628400The drip is too much almost. Apparently the boots were not unique to them at this time and had been widely adopted in Italy. Hate to see those old ornate sandals fell out of favor though. Thank you for naming the artist. He's got great stuff.
>>18628400>reconstructed from Procopius' descriptionslol
>>18628454Sometimes I wonder if stupid sounding names/words come from our ancestors making fun of foreigners, thus encoding those patterns of syllables into the language as exemplifying silly words
>>18628454Chindasvinto sound funny as fuck in spanish
>>18629199I really like those names. If my parents named me Wamba I would be pretty happy about thst even though I don't know what it means. Amalasuintha loses me just on syllables, only cunts have more than three syllables or hyphens in their name.
>>18630015It sounds like a brand of juice, tbqh.
>>18630378Makes sense when all the Roman emperors were named after a salad.
>>18628454You probably probounce them in a faggy emglish way instead of the correct way, like you call it Caesar instead of Keiser.
>>18628454Isn't this because you English folks like to shorten everything? William becomes Bill, Roland becomes Rob, etc etc.
>>18630815The title was a salad, the names aren't. Vitellius isn't a salad. He had peas.>>18630818Pronounce Wamba correctly.>>18630821All the names here are East germanic.
>King TortillaCringe
>King TortillaBased
>>18630942>>18630945Tortilla the Hutt?
>>18628400Romano-Gothic kino
