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A curse was honest, brother. Thy bane have I wrought thee. I'm Jenny Williamson.

And I'm Jen McMannamy.

And this is Ancient History Fan Girl.

So, when Theodoric the Great died in 526 AD, many myths sprang up

around that death. Some say he died of crippling guilt after seeing a dead fish that looked like the

severed head of a man he'd had executed. Others whispered that he was thrown into a volcano or hauled off to

hell on the back of a demonic horse. Others say it was dysentery. I do not abide by dysentery. What a boring way to go. I mean, I really think that the dysentery is the worst way to go out of all of these. Well, yeah. I mean, I think that is probably the worst way to go out of all of these. But like, you hear like, you know, into a volcano, carried off by sea horses. Like, I don't know. Crippling guilt over executing someone

he shouldn't have executed because he saw like a creepy fishhead. I'm like, yes, give me the drama. And then it's like dysentery. A lot of people died of dysentery. It's not a great way to go. I know. I also played the Oregon Trail game.

Oh yeah, I never made it far.

Anyway, after his death, he was buried in a vast... I know. I also played the Oregon Trail game. Oh, yeah. I never made it far.

Anyway, after his death, he was buried in a vast mausoleum. Mosoleum. Mosoleum.

Mosulium. Thank you. In Ravenna with a bathtub for a coffin. This is true. He was buried in a bathtub.

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