Hermanaric, king of the Goths was one of the Huns whose lands carried an adminstration for the Scythian land. Filimer, king of the Goths, son of Gadaric the Great, who was the fifth in succession to hold the rule of the Getae after their departure from the of Scandza, found among his people certain witches, whom he called in his native tongue Haliurunnae but was the descent of the Huns who came to the country of the Goths, settled on on the farthest edge of the Maeotic swamp where it had once fallen to the Alpidzuri, Alcildzuri, Itimari, Tuncarsi and Boisci, who bordered on that part of Scythia. Balamber, king of the Huns, took advantage of his ill health to move an army into the country of the Ostrogoths, from whom the Visigoths had already separated because of some dispute. Meanwhile Hermanaric, who was unable to endure either the pain of his wound or the inroads of the Huns, died full of days at the great age of one hundred and ten years. When both tribes, Ostrogoths and Visigoths, were united, and then clearly treated of the Visigoths apart from the Ostrogoths.
Ancient Scythian abodes set forth in like manner the ancestry and deeds of the Ostrogoths. It appears that at the death of their king, Hermanaric, they were made a separate people by the departure of the Visigoths, and remained in their country subject to the sway of the Huns; yet Vinitharius of the Amali retained the insignia of his rule. Hermanaric who disliking to remain under the rule of the Huns, like his grandfather Vultuulf, he withdrew a little from them and strove to show his courage by moving his forces against the country of the Antes. Balamber, king of the Huns, from a noble tribe including Boz which was seized by Vinitharius, would no longer endure it, but sent for Gesimund, son of Hunimund the Great. Now Gesimund, together with a great part of the Goths, remained under the rule of the Huns, being mindful of his oath of fidelity. And later, after the death of Vinitharius, Hunimund ruled them, the son of Hermanaric, a mighty King of yore. The son of Hermanaric fought successfully against the Germanicus race of the Suavi when Agricola in Britain arrived before the Frisii and among many sold as slaves in the way of trade and were brought through the process of barter as far as our side of the Rhine were returned to where Gauls were first called Germans. When Italy was to repair Germany, they celebrated a god sprung from the earth and Mannus his son, as the fathers and founders of the nation. To Mannus, three sons assigned, after whose names so many people are called. The Ingaevones dwelling next to the ocean, Herminoines in the middle country, and the rest Instaevones maintained that the deity had more sons that came among more denominations of people; the Marsians, Gambrians, Suevians, and Vandalians.
Goths heroes, as they themselves relate in their legends, was Gapt, who begat Hulmul. And Hulmul begat Augis; and Augis begat him who was called Amal, from whom the name of the Amali comes. This Amal begat Hisarnis. Hisarnis moreover begat Ostrogotha, and Ostrogotha begat Hunuil, and Hunuil likewise begat Athal. Athal begat Achiulf and Oduulf. Now Achiulf begat Ansila and Ediulf, Vultuulf and Hermanaric. And Vultuulf begat Valaravans and Valaravans begat Vinitharius. Vinitharius moreover begat Vandalarius; Vandalarius begat Thiudimer and Valamir and Vidimer; and Thiudimer begat Theodoric. Theodoric begat Amalasuentha; Amalasuentha bore Athalaric and Mathesuentha to her husband Eutharic, whose race was thus joined to hers in kinship. For the aforesaid Hermanaric, the son of Achiulf, begat Hunimund, and Hunimund begat Thorismud. Now Thorismud begat Beremud, Beremud begat Veteric, and Veteric likewise begat Eutharic, who married Amalasuentha and begat Athalaric and Mathesuentha. Mathesuentha married Vitiges by who it is sometimes ascribed passed from human affairs, Germanus the patrician, a cousin of the Emperor Justinian, took Mathesuentha in marriage and made her a patrician Ordinary. And of her he begat a son, also called Germanus. But upon the death of Germanus, she determined to remain a widow. Now how and in what wise the kingdom of the Amali was overthrown we shall keep to tell in its proper place, if the Lord help us.