Herwig Wolfram points out that while primary sources occasionally list all four names (as in, for example, "Gruthungi, Austrogothi, Tervingi, Visi"), whenever they mention two different tribes, they always refer either to "the Vesi and the Ostrogothi" or to "the Tervingi and the Greuthungi", and they never pair them up in any other combination.
Kralj Roderik in veliko pripadnikov vizigotske elite je bilo ubitih in njihovo kraljestvo hitro propadlo.