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Goth

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Icelandic, got (a horseman); whence Woden—i.e. Gothen.

“The Goths were divided by the Dnieper into East Goths (Ostrogoths), and West Goths (Visigoths), and were the most cultured of the German peoples.”—Baring-Gould: Story of Germany, p. 37.

Last of the Goths. Roderick, the thirty-fourth of the Visigothic line of kings (414–711). (See Roderick.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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