character--His semi-barbarous army--Enters Italy--Battle of the Apennines--Totila slain--End of the Gothic dominion in Italy.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE THEODORIC OF SAGA Page 370

The fame of Theodoric attested by the Saga dealing with his name, utterly devoid as they are of historic truth--The Wilkina Saga--Story of Theodoric's ancestors--His own boyhood--His companions, Master Hildebrand, Heime, and Witig--Death of his father and his succession to the throne--Herbart wooes King Arthur's daughter, first for Theodoric and then for himself--Hermanric, his uncle, attacks Theodoric--Flight and exile at the Court of Attila--Attempt to return--Attila's sons slain in battle--The tragedy of the Nibelungs--Theodoric returns to his kingdom--His mysterious end.

INDEX Page 429

ILLUSTRATIONS.

STATUE OF THEODORIC IN THE CHURCH OF THE FRANCISCANS AT INNSBRUCK--TOMB OF MAXIMILIAN Frontispiece

¹MAP OF EUROPE A.D. 493 Page 1

THE BURNT COLUMN, CONSTANTINOPLE Page 44

OBELISK OF THEODOSIUS IN THE HIPPODROME AT CONSTANTINOPLE Page 46

PEDESTAL OF THE OBELISK OF THEODOSIUS Page 48

¹MAP OF THRACIA, DACIA, AND MACEDONIA IN THE 5TH CENTURY Page 58

GOLDEN SOLIDUS, LEO II., ZENO Page 92

HALF-SILIQUA OF SILVER, ODOVACAR Page 108

¹MAP OF ITALY UNDER THE OSTROGOTHS Page 128

THE ARENA OF VERONA, PRESENT CONDITION Page 138

HALF-SILIQUA OF THEODORIC (SILVER), BEARING THE HEAD OF ANASTASIUS Page 147

² A PAGE OF THE GOTHIC GOSPELS (CODEX ARGENTEUS), MARK VII., 3-7 Page 180

¹ MAP OF GAUL A.D. 500-523 Page 190

COIN OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM IN ITALY Page 206

COPPER COIN OF ANASTASIUS (FORTY NUMMI) Page 228

PINE FOREST, RAVENNA Page 244

INTERIOR OF BASILICA, IN RAVENNA Page 248

MOSAIC IN THE CHURCH OF ST. APOLLINARE NUOVO AT RAVENNA, SHOWING THE PORT OF CLASSIS Page 250

PROCESSION OF MARTYRS, MOSAIC FROM ST. APOLLINARE NUOVO IN RAVENNA Page 252

PALACE OF THEODORIC, SIDE VIEW Page 254

COIN OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM IN ITALY Page 255

VIEW OF MODERN CONSTANTINOPLE Page 260

COPPER PIECE OF ATHALARIC, TEN NUMMI (HEAD OF JUSTINIAN?) Page 280

²THE TOMB OF THEODORIC, RAVENNA Page 288

CUIRASS OF THEODORIC (?) IN THE MUSEUM AT RAVENNA Page 290

²JUSTINIAN AND HIS NOBLES, FROM THE MOSAICS AT RAVENNA Page 296

PIECE OF FORTY NUMMI OF THEODAHAD Page 316

COPPER SOLIDUS, JUSTIN I. AND JUSTINIAN Page 340

COIN OF BADUILA (TOTILA) Page 359

COIN OF TEIAS, SUCCESSOR OF TOTILA Page 3698

VERONA, FROM PONTE VECCHIO, SITE OF PALACE OF