Not sure about the Ostrogoths
(midwest.social)
negativenull
History MemesIn a galaxy kinda far away
what about the westrogoths
how about the osteogoths
In our world, bones equal dollars
That’s why they’re coming out tonight
To get their bones from you
that's just modern goths
The "Visi" in "Visigoths" is already meant to identify them as the western Gothic people, in contrast with the eastern "Ostrogoths" (it doesn't mean "western" but it was meant to be used like that by Cassiodorus, who invented the term).
Between Wiktionary and Etymonline, the suggestion is the word stems from Latin Vesi as a Latinized form of their tribe name, itself coming from PGmc *wesuz "great, excellent".
I really hope this is right, because a nation of goths who call themselves "the Good Guys" is hilarious to me.
i gathered that it wasn't cassiodorus who started using the term that way but a later writer. he invented the term but just called the ostrogoths "goths"
Invisigoth sounds like one of the X-Men
An episode of the x-files had an "invisigoth". Just watched that episode coincidentally
Ostrogoths had their heads in the sand.
This deserves to be crossposted to dadjokes 💪
Especially with the circan’t be sure. A lovely dad joke indeed
Ostrogoths about to enter from the panel on the right
You can always tell a Milford man.
Mother!
Also know as Vidontsigoths
There was an opportunity missed here to have the armored men with black eye liner and Docs to double up.
