Abstract
The belonging of the Visigothic royal family to the Ballho's lineage is only mentioned in lordanes' Getica.ln the Cassiodorus's History, dated AD. 533 A.D., a detailed information about the divine origin and heroic ancestry of the royal Ostrogoths Amals was probably found. On the contrary, nothing of the kind is mentionned about the Balths. except the fact that they descend from Baltha. During the Late Antiquity, a German epic poem -Waltharius -circulated throughout Europe, whose action is located in the 5th century and whose protagonist is Waltharius, son of the Aquitania's king. His ethnic group is not indicated. Provided that he appears as a neighbour of Franks and Burgundians and an enemy of the Huns, we may deduce that he is a Visigoth. The poem, though fully modified in its form, still preserves traditional German values from the times before Christianity. The protagonist has also the characteristical moral features of the first and second function gods. This leads to the conclusion that he was orig...
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