Peringsciold (the Swedish commentator of Cochloeus, Vit.Theodoric.p.271, &c., Stockholm, 1699) labors to connect this genealogy with the legends or traditions of his native country.

* Note: Amala was a name of hereditary sanctity and honor among the Visigoths.
It enters into the names of Amalaberga, Amala suintha, (swinther means strength,) Amalafred, Amalarich.

In the poem of the Nibelungen written three hundred years later, the Ostrogoths are called the Amilungen.
According to Wachter it means, unstained, from the privative a, and malo a stain.

It is pure Sanscrit, Amala, immaculatus.Schlegel.

Indische Bibliothek, 1.p.