Editing Ostrogoths (section)

===Etymology===
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[[File:GNM - Gotische Fibeln.jpg|thumb|upright|Ostrogothic bow-fibulae (c. 500) from [[Emilia-Romagna]], [[Italy]]]]

The first part of the word "Ostrogoth" comes from a [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] root ''*auster-'' meaning 'eastern'. According to the proposal of Wolfram, this was originally a boastful tribal name meaning "Goths of the rising sun", or "Goths glorified by the rising sun".{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|pp=25, 387 fn49, 388 fn58}}{{Efn|Wolfram cites Moritz Schönfeld's (1911) work, ''Wörterbuch der altgermanischen personen- und Völkernamen'' as his principal naming source. See: [https://archive.org/details/wrterbuchderaltg00schn/page/39 p. 39]. According to linguist [[Václav Blažek]], this ethnonym shows several written forms in mediaeval records: Austrogoti; Austorgoti; Obstrogoti; Ostrogothi; Ostrogotus; Histrogotus; (H)ostrogothae (or Hostrogothae, Hostrogothi, Hostrogothae, Hostrogothae, Hostrogothi, Ostrogothi, Hostrogothae, Ostrogothi and Ostrogothi - these from the same record, Jordanes's ''Getica''), and Ostrogotthi. See: Blažek, Václav. "[http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/126015 Visigothae versus Ostrogothae]". In: ''Graeco-Latina Brunensia'' vol. 17, iss. 2. 2012. pp. 17–18.}} By the 6th century, however, Jordanes, for example, believed that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were two contrasting names simply meaning western and eastern Goths.{{sfn|Wolfram|1988|p=24}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|p=206}}