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Alaric
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Alaric is a Germanic name that, broken into its parts means Ala: "everyone's" and ric: "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as Alareiks in the original Gothic and Alrekr in Old Norse. Modern Germanic languages render it as Alarich or Alarik. In Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish it is Alarico. But Alaric is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization of the Gothic (Alaricus).
There were two Visigothic kings with this name:
- Alaric I who reigned from 395–410 CE
- Alaric II who reigned from 485–507 CE
- The Breviary of Alaric is a collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II.
There was one legendary king of Sweden by the name Alrek.
- Alaric Jacob, a British journalist, most active in the period 1940-1960.
- Alaric Alexander Watts (1797-1864), a British poet and journalist.
- Alaric Morgan is the seventh Duke of Corwyn in the fictional universe of the Deryni novels of Katherine Kurtz.
- Alaric the Mad is a master dwarven rune smith in the Warhammer Fantasy realm.
- Alaric, Duke of Dunstable is a character in a number of P. G. Wodehouse's 'Blandings Castle' novels.
- Alaric Tokpa, a politician in Liberia.
- HMS Alaric (P441) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy.
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