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* Jordanes, Getica: The origin and deeds of the Goths, translated by Charles C. Mierow.
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Jordanes and Getica
Jordanes ' Getica ( c. 560 ), purporting to give the earliest history of the Goths, relates that the Goths ' ancestors, descendants of Magog, originally dwelt within Scythia, on the Sea of Azov between the Dnieper and Don Rivers.
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The most important source is Jordanes ' 6th-century, semi-fictional Getica which describes a migration from southern Scandza ( Scandinavia ), to Gothiscandza, believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerania, and from there to the coast of the Black Sea.
According to Jordanes ’ Getica, written in the mid-6th century, the earliest migrating Goths sailed from Scandza ( Scandinavia ) under King Berig in three ships and named the place at which they landed after themselves.
Mediterranean world as Jordanes wrote his Getica.
Christensen A. S., Troya C. and Kulikowski M. ( see reference list ), demonstrated in their works that Jordanes developed in Getica the history of Getic and Dacian peoples mixed with a lot of fantastic deeds.
Jordanes ' conversion may have been a conversion to the trinitarian Nicene creed, which may be expressed in anti-Arianism in certain passages in Getica.
In the preface to his Getica, Jordanes writes that he is interrupting his work on the Romana at the behest of a brother Castalius, who apparently knew that Jordanes had had the twelve volumes of the History of the Goths by Cassiodorus at home.
According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.
* Jordanes, Byzantine author of the Getica
This identification of Nepos is confirmed by a passage in Jordanes ' Getica.
In his description of Scandza ( from the 6th century work, Getica ), the ancient writer Jordanes says that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi ( Swedes, Suithiod?
The 6th century AD Getica of Jordanes records a persecution and expulsion of witches among the Goths in a mythical account of the origin of the Huns.
It was first described by the 6th century Goth scholar Jordanes in his Getica wherein he described the inhabitants of Scandza ( Scandinavia ).
The official Byzantine position, adopted by Procopius and even by the Romanized Goth Jordanes, writing just before the conclusion of the Gothic Wars, was that Totila was a usurper: Jordanes ' Getica ( 551 ) overlooks the recent successes of Totila.
* Jordanes, Getica
The Vidivarii themselves are described by Jordanes in his Getica as a melting pot of tribes who in the mid-6th century lived at the lower Vistula.
* Jordanes, Getica
Modern Istanbul, site of ancient Constantinople, capital of the eastern Roman Empire, where Jordanes wrote Getica.
De origine actibusque Getarum ( The Origin and Deeds of the Getae / Goths ), or the Getica, written in Late Latin by Jordanes ( or Jornandes ) in 551, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which may have had the title " Origo Gothica " and which is now lost.
Jordanes says in the preface to Getica that he obtained them from the librarian for three days in order to read them again ( relegi ).
The events, persons and peoples of Getica are put forward as being up to many centuries prior to the time of Jordanes.
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Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.
* Around this time, the historian Jordanes writes several books, among them De origine actibusque Getarum ( The origin and deeds of the Goths ).
Jordanes in his The origin and deeds of the Goths traces the line of the Amelungs up to Hulmul son of Gapt, purportedly the first Gothic hero of record.
The names of Rhovanion's royal family, Vidugavia, Vidumavi and Vinitharya are of Gothic origin and are attested in sixth-century chronicles by Cassiodorus, Jordanes and Procopius.
Jordanes in The origin and deeds of the Goths traces the line of the Amelungs up to Hulmul son of Gapt, purportedly the first Gothic hero of record.
Some of Tanausis ' followers remained in the conquered lands, and Jordanes cites Pompeius Trogus as saying these were the origin of the Parthians, stating that in the Scythian language " Parthi " means " deserter " ( 5. 48 ).
Jordanes in The origin and deeds of the Goths ( 551 ) traces the line of the Amelungs up to Hulmul son of Gapt, purportedly the first Gothic hero of record.
Jordanes and Goths
The arrival of Germanic-speaking invaders along the coast of the Black Sea is generally explained as a gradual migration of the Goths from what is now Poland to Ukraine, reflecting the tradition of Jordanes and old songs.
Jordanes parses Ostrogoths as " eastern Goths ", and Visigoths as " Goths of the western country.
* Cassiodorus: A lost history of the Goths used by Jordanes
Jordanes reports that the Huns were led at this time by Balamber while modern historians question his existence, seeing instead an invention by the Goths to explain who defeated them.
Jordanes was asked by a friend to write this book as a summary of a multi-volume history of the Goths ( now lost ) by the statesman Cassiodorus.
Much of what we know about the Battle of Châlons comes from The History and Deeds of the Goths, written by Jordanes
In the pen of Jordanes, Herodotus ' Getian demi-god Zalmoxis becomes a king of the Goths ( 39 ).
Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium " just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon ( 108 ).
The less fictional part of Jordanes ' work begins when the Goths encounter Roman military forces in the third century AD.
Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.
* Arne Søby Christensen, Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths.
* Jordanes, The Origins and Deeds of the Goths, translated by Charles C. Mierow.
* Jordanes publishes The Origin and Deeds of the Goths.
Jordanes has anses for the gods of the Goths.
Jordanes says the Goths upon their arrival in this area expelled the Ulmerugi.
Jordanes reports how the Goths sacrificed prisoners of war to Mars, suspending the severed arms of the victims from the branches of trees.
The " reform of Deceneus " is the result of the elaborations of the 6th century bishop and historian Jordanes who includes the Getae in his history of the Goths: here he describes how Deceneus teaches the Getae people philosophy and physics.
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