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.

This migration would have taken place about 230 years before Jordanes wrote his " Origin of the Goths ".

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

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

* Jordanes, The Origins and Deeds of the Goths, translated by Charles C. Mierow.

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.

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.

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.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

The legend of Alaric's burial in the Buzita River comes from Jordanes.

The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.

Jordanes also mentions that they fought with Hercules, and in the Trojan War, and that a smaller contingent of them endured in the Caucasus Mountains until the time of Alexander.

Attila's host, according to Jordanes, included contingents from the " innumerable tribes that had been brought under his sway.

* Jordanes Getica ( ca.

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.

* Jordanes, Getica, par.

101-103 from The Gothic History of Jordanes ( English Version ), ed.

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.

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.

Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.

Jordanes, a Goth writing in Italy in 551, a century after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire, describes the Huns as a " savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

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.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

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

Mediterranean world as Jordanes wrote his Getica.

Jordanes, also written Jordanis or, uncommonly, Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat, who turned his hand to history later in life.