The Story of the Goths (Illustrated) by Henry Bradley

Author:Henry Bradley [Bradley, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Didactic Press
Published: 2013-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

PORTION OF A GOTHIC DEED.

"I, WILYARITH THE NOTARY HAVE SIGNED WITH MY OWN HAND; AND WE HAVE RECEIVED 60 SHILLINGS; AND PREVIOUSLY, BYWAY OF LOAN, AND JOINTLY WITH OUR DEACON ALAMOD AND OUR COLLEAGUES, WE RECEIVED 120 SHILLINGS, THE PRICE OFTHESE WATER-MEADOWS."

Now, who was the warrior or prince whose body had the strange fate of being buried in golden and jeweled armour, and yet not in a stately sepulchre, but in a shallow trench dug in a common graveyard? Some have thought that it was Odovacar; but it seems more likely that it was Odovacar's conqueror. If the skeleton found in 1854 was, indeed, that of Theoderic, it is plain that those who plundered the tomb of the Arian king were moved only by religious hate, and not by selfish greed, or they would have stolen the gold and jewels instead of burying them with their owner. How fierce was the hatred felt by pious churchmen for Theoderic's memory we may learn from the dialogues of the famous pope, Gregory the Great, who tells how, at the moment of the heretic monarch's death, a saintly hermit beheld in a vision his soul dragged by the victims of his persecutions, and cast into the mouth of the volcano of Lipari.

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