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Greuthungi
The Greuthungs, Greuthungi, or Greutungi were a Gothic people of the Black Sea steppes in the third and fourth centuries. They had close contacts with the Thervingi, another Gothic people from west of the river Dnestr. They may be the same people as the later Ostrogoths.
==Etymology==
"Greuthungi" may mean "steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts".〔Herwig Wolfram, ''History of the Goths'', trans. T. J. Dunlop (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988), p. 25.〕 The root ''greut''- is probably related to the Old English ''greot'', meaning "gravel, grit, earth" Polish ''grunt'' land, role, earth 〔Thomas S. Burns, ''A History of the Ostrogoths'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), p. 30.〕 This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi-Greuthungi than the late third century.〔Wolfram387–388 n58.〕 It is also possible that the name "Greuthungi" has pre-Pontic Scandinavian origins.〔 It may mean "rock people", to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Gauts (in what is today Sweden).〔 Jordanes does refer to an ''Evagreotingi'' (Greuthung island) in Scandza, but this may be legend. It has also been suggested that it may be related to certain place names in Poland, but this has met with little support.〔
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