Quote Originally Posted by Furnace View Post
I think it means western goths, or the western branch of the gothic empire. You also have a eastern branch, namely Ostrogoths (eastern goths) .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigot...si.2FVisigothi

The Visigoths are called Wesi or Wisi by Trebellius Pollio, Claudian, and Sidonius Apollinaris. The word is Gothic for "good", implying the "good or worthy people",

The name Visigothi is an invention of Cassiodorus, who combined Visi and Gothi under the misapprehension that it meant "west Goths".