the Ostrogothic people, was known as the family of the Amals.
It is true that the divine and exclusive prerogatives of the family have
been somewhat magnified by the minstrels who sang in the courts of their
descendants, for there are manifest traces of kings ruling over the
Ostrogothic people, who are not included in the Amal genealogy. Still,
as far as we can peer through the obscurity of the early history of the
people, we may safely say that there was no other family of higher
position than the Amals, and that gradually all that consciousness of
national life and determination to cherish national unity, which among
the Germanic peoples was inseparably connected with the institution of
royalty, centred round the race of the divine Amala.

The following is the pedigree of this royal clan, as given by the
historian of the Goths,[5] and with those epithets which the secretary
of Theodoric[6] attached to the names of some of the ancestors of his
lord. (The names of those who wore the crown are marked in italics.)

Gapt (possibly=Gaut, the eponymous
| hero of the Gothic nation)
Hulmul
|
Augis
|
Amal ("the fortunate")
|
Hisarna (=the man of iron)
|
_OSTROGOTHA_ ("the patient")
|
Hunuil
|
Athal ("the mild")
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Achiulf Odwulf
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Ansila Ediulf Vultwulf _Hermanric_
| |
Walaravans _Hunimund_
| ("the beautiful")
| |
Winithar_ ("the just") _Thorismund_
|