... This great king (Theodoric) died, however, after a wise and active reign of thirty-four years; and immediately the evils, that lay in the political constitution of all the German nations, broke out.  Amalasvinda, the worthy guardian of the young Adelrich, was thwarted in his education by the nobles of the realm; and as on his decease she took the detestable Deodatus for an assistant in the talk of government, who rewarded her with death, the standard of revolt was raised among the Goths. (Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, Herder, 1800)