 Although particularly German scholarship have identified the unnamed Heruli king and the Rodulfs as the same person, including the "Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde" in an entry by Norwegian historian Claus Krag, others such as historian Walter Goffart and archaeologist Dagfinn Skre have questioned at least parts of these identifications.Historian A. H. Merrills, on the other hand, has proposed the possibility that associating Rodulf with the Scandinavian tribes could have been politically motivated