thumb|300px|Amphitheatre at Trier in which Ascaric and Merogais were executed along with numerous Frankish soldiers. Ascaric or Ascarich () was an early Frankish war leader, who, along with his co-leader, Merogais, are the earliest known leaders explicitly called Frankish, although the name of the Franks is earlier.
thumb|300px|Amphitheatre at Trier in which Ascaric and Merogais were executed along with numerous Frankish soldiers. Ascaric or Ascarich () was an early Frankish war leader, who, along with his co-leader, Merogais, are the earliest known leaders explicitly called Frankish, although the name of the Franks is earlier.
The Germanic name is a compound of two elements, clearly identified as asca- "ash tree" and -riks "ruler".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).