These believers in Arianism fought a drawn-out bloody stalemate with Belisarius after the death of their most powerful leader, who executed Boethius and usurped Odoacer to rule from Ravenna.
A legendary king of these people tied a woman named Sunilda to two horses which ran in opposite directions to pull her apart as a punishment to her husband. This ethnic group regained its hold on Salona when they killed the opposing general Mundus. A foederatus from this people named Gunthigis Baza employed the historian Jordanes as a scribe. Under the rule of this ethnicity, construction of the octagonal (*) San Vitale basilica began. These believers in Arianism fought a drawn-out bloody stalemate with Belisarius after the death of their most powerful leader, who executed Boethius and usurped Odoacer to rule from Ravenna. For 10 points, name this barbarian tribe once led by Hermanaric, which ruled the Italian peninsula under Theodoric the Great after branching off from the Visigoths.
A legendary king of these people tied a woman named Sunilda to two horses which ran in opposite directions to pull her apart as a punishment to her husband.
Ostrogoths [prompt on "Goths" until the last word]