>Radagaisus (died 23 August 406) was a Gothic king who led an invasion of Roman Italy in late 405 and the first half of 406.[1][2] A committed Pagan, Radagaisus evidently planned to sacrifice the Senators of the Christian Roman Empire to the gods, and to burn Rome to the ground.[3]
Why did the sissified Christcucks Alaric and Gaiseric have to sack Rome? We were going to show you a real dark age
Because Radagaisus lost also we have no idea what he actually wanted
Romonkeys lost.
>> 12,000 of his higher-status fighters were drafted into the Roman army and some of the remaining followers were dispersed, while so many of the others were sold into slavery that the slave market briefly collapsed.
>The Roman counterattack was extremely successful, and Radagaisus was forced to retreat into the hills of Fiesole, about 8 km away. There, Radagaisus abandoned his followers and tried to escape, but was captured by the Romans
Judging by his name, he was probably a Slav, so he was too savage and low-IQ to win.
That name is perfectly Germanic, PG *Rēdagaizaz
did you pull that reconstructed name out of your ass?
That is clearly what it is, do you take issue with it?
you gave us no reason to believe it is correct
All the sources recorded him as a Goth, and the Goths were objectively Germanic.
>evidently planned to sacrifice the Senators of the Christian Roman Empire to the gods
>... as claimed by sources familiar with his way of thinking
>goth
but we have sufficient evidence to believe that his name is a Gothicized version of "Radegast" which is a slavonic name
Your opinion =/= evidence
no my opinion is law
The name is a perfect match within Germanic etymology, the proposed Slavic source cannot account for the missing t and the Slavic name is probably glossing the Gothic name to begin with
OK, so what does this name mean in Protogermanic then?
It's a combination of two generic common elements in names, Redaz meaning "advice"(German Rat) and Gaizaz meaning "spear"(German Ger). Both occur in many other names, they kind of just mix and match them without thinking about it too much.
Makes sense. Looks like I fell for Slavic wewuzery.
>we
Come on now.
Alaric has survived in Sweden, in Old Norse Alrekr and in modern Swedish Alrik.
rekr indicates the variant *rekaz instead of *riks, the latter is a Celtic loan. Northmen probably didn't pick it up because they weren't in direct contact with Celts.
>rekr indicates the variant *rekaz instead of *riks, the latter is a Celtic loan
I have never been sold on this tbh as I do not see why the Norse kept the PIE word alive while all other Germanics only got it from the Celts. Plus, the Norse words are used in the exact same way as their cognates on the continent are used.
Well, they are different, and the continental variant just happens to be identical to the Celtic one. Riks is not the regular outcome of Germanic sound shifts either. iirc a similar thing happened with wiko(town, hence also Wikingaz) which came from Latin vicus(probably vulgar that already shifted -us to -o) and replaced the native cognate that would've had Grimm's law. Neither word was "gotten" from the others, continentals originally had rekaz but constant interaction with Celts caused its replacement.
>Alrekr ok Eiríkr
God fricking damnit I'm dumb sometimes, it's basically the only attestation of Alrekr and it clearly shows there was another form in Old Norse, and both can hardly be native.
i wonder what the implications of this would've been, small pagan resurgence perhaps
We would never heard the end of it to this day, but it would be the most based event in history
Too bad pagancucks. It takes Abrahamics to take down Abrahamics.
> Now the barbarians, by whom the seven-hilled city was destroyed, were, without exception, Arians; that is, rebels against the lamb, who strove to dethrone the cosubstantial Son of God by stripping him of his divinity. Alaric, Astolphus, Gaiseric, Ricimer, Odoacer, Theodoric, Vitiges, Totila, who lent a hand to the work of chastisement, were Arians: both Goths and Vandals were persecutors of the Catholics, but not one single barbarian chief, who was a pagan, ever entered Rome.
This only israelites, Christians, and Muslims can defeat the other
>Alaric ordered that anyone who took shelter in a Church was to be spared.[56][l] When liturgical vessels were taken from the basilica of St. Peter and Alaric heard of this, he ordered them returned and had them ceremoniously restored in the church.[57] If the account from Orosius can be seen as accurate, there was even a celebratory recognition of Christian unity by way of a procession through the streets where Romans and barbarians alike "raised a hymn to God in public"
Holy Soul!
>Radagaisus was executed after being defeated by the half-Vandal general Stilicho. 12,000 of his higher-status fighters were drafted into the Roman army and some of the remaining followers were dispersed, while so many of the others were sold into slavery that the slave market briefly collapsed.
Based Christchad Stilicho