Their early origins are reported in Jordanes ' Origins and Deeds of the Goths, where he claims that their name derives from their later and slower migration from Scandinavia:

Sixth Century historian Jordanes makes two references the Aesti in his book " The Origins and the Deeds of the Goths ", which was a treatment of Cassiodorus ' longer book ( which no longer survives ) on the history of the Goths.

Much of what we know about the Battle of Châlons comes from The History and Deeds of the Goths, written by Jordanes

* Jordanes publishes The Origin and Deeds of the Goths.

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.

He lived in the late 5th century, and most of the stories about him were recorded in the Byzantine historian Jordanes ' The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, written in the mid-6th century, only about 80 years after his presumed death.

He is described by Jordanes in Getica ( The Origin and Deeds of the Goths ) and based on similarity of names ( he was from the Rani ) he is supposed to have come from the province of Bohuslän in western Sweden ( where Ranrike was situated ).

Strabo, Polyaenus, Cassiodorus, and Jordanes ( in De origine actibusque Getarum, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths ) also wrote of her.

Deceneus ( or Dicineus, Dekaineos ) refers in The Origin and Deeds of the Goths ( Getica ) by Jordanes to two different men in Dacia:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Around this time, the historian Jordanes writes several books, among them De origine actibusque Getarum ( The origin and deeds of the Goths ).

Jordanes has anses for the gods of the Goths.

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.

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.

* Jordanes, Getica: The origin and deeds of the Goths, translated by Charles C. Mierow.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

Jordanes and Aurelius Victor claim that Herennius Etruscus was killed by an arrow during a skirmish before the outset of the battle and that his father addressed his soldiers as if the loss of his son did not matter.

Regarding the location of Gothiscandza, Jordanes states that one shipload " dwelled in the province of Spesis on an island surrounded by the shallow waters of the Vistula.

In 552, Justinian dispatched a force of 2, 000 men ; according to the historian Jordanes, this army was led by the octogenarian Liberius.

That the Tervingi were the Vesi / Visigothi and the Greuthungi the Ostrogothi is also supported by Jordanes.

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.

But Cassiodorus does not supply any details about his correspondent or the size and nature of his pension, and Jordanes, whose history of the period abridges an earlier work by Cassiodorus, makes no mention of a pension.

That the Tervingi were the same people as the Vesi / Visigothi and the Greuthungi as the Ostrogothi is also supported by Jordanes.

The 6th century chronicler Jordanes reports a tradition that they had been driven out of their homeland by the North Germanic Dani, which places their origins in the Danish isles or southernmost Sweden.

ēsa ) and Gothic ( as reported by Jordanes ) anses " half-gods ".

This identification has been denied by historian R. W. Burgess, who starts by observing that the claim reposes on a single passage from Jordanes ' Romana.

This identification of Nepos is confirmed by a passage in Jordanes ' Getica.

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.