See also: Hermanaric

Ermanaric (in gotic language Aírmanareiks, Old norrois Jörmunrek (Kr), in Latin Ermanaricus passed to the medieval German language Ermenrîch; † 376) was king historically attested Ostrogoths. It belongs to the Amales. Its kingdom was located in current Ukraine between the rivers of the Don and of the current Dniestr but historians do not know with precision its extent.

Ermanaric is mentioned in two Roman sources: LMBO Gestae of Ammien Marcellin in IVe century and " Getica " of Jordanès, with the Life century. According to Ammien, Ermanaric is a " king very guerrier" fears its neighbors. He reigns on a wide and fertile territory. Attacked suddenly by the Huns, it tries to fight, but, frightened by the rumors circulating on its enemies, it commits suicide. Jordanès, which lived several centuries after the facts, makes an account more detailed than that of Ammien, with which it differs on several points. According to Jordanès, Eramanaric conquered the territory of many warlike tribes of north and Jordanès says many other things still. To know them, you can read his text, and then after you will be able to come to give an account of it scientifically on this page to continue the article, but me, I do not want to do it now.

Jordanès declares that the king put at died an young woman called Sunilda by attaching it to four wild horses and quartered it thus, because her husband déloyalement had déloyalement given up it. The two brothers of the latter, Sarus and Ammius, wounded Ermanaric severely. There exist variations on this in the Germanic Littérature Médiéval E, including in England and Scandinavia (see wire of Jonakr).