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Visigoth   /vˈɪzəgɑθ/   Listen
Visigoth

noun
1.
A member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France.





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"Visigoth" Quotes from Famous Books



... influence of a French princess, Bertha, the Christian wife of Ethelbert, king of Kent, that St. Augustine and his companions were favourably received in England; whilst another princess of the same race, Ingunda, who married the son of the Visigoth king of Spain, is said to have brought about the conversion of her husband from Arianism to the Catholic faith, by her own constancy under persecution. [Sidenote: The Church under Charlemagne.] During the reign of the Emperor Charlemagne ...
— A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) • John Henry Blunt
... admiration. For have not their feet wandered where the Caesars' feet have trod, till that famous ground has become common earth to them? Have they not dwelt in the shadow of mountains that have trembled beneath the tramp of Goth, Visigoth and Ostrogoth, till those shadows have become every-day shadows to them? Have they not often watched beneath the same stars that shone upon knightly vigils, till the whiteness of those shining hosts has made pure their souls ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... Visigoth come here, The trampler under foot, and he whose eyes, Unblest, behold not where the glory lies; The wallower in ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett


Words linked to "Visigoth" :   Goth


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