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Droctulft

Index: Historia del guerrero y de la cautiva, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 557-60.

Lombard soldier who joins defenders of Ravenna, mentioned in GIbbon and Croce

Fishburn and Hughes: "A member of the Lombard army which descended into Italy in the sixth century, as recorded by Paul the Deacon in his Acts of the Lombards. Droctulft, captured and held prisoner in Ravenna, went over to the enemy in revenge for his leader's failure to come to his rescue." (62)