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.

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

To his sister's son Gunthigis, also called Baza, the Master of the Soldiery, who was the son of Andag the son of Andela, who was descended from the stock of the Amali, I also, Jordanes, although an unlearned man before my conversion, was secretary.

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

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

Jordanes states that Theodoric was thrown from his horse and trampled to death by his advancing men, but he also mentions another story that had Theodoric slain by the spear of the Ostrogoth Andag.

He was also an opponent of the Roman Senate ; and his seditious plans are confirmed by Jerome and Jordanes.

However, we cannot assess the extent to which Jordanes actually used the work of Cassiodorus ( see the discussion below on the sources also used by Jordanes ).

Mierow gives a summary of these, which is reviewed below, and also states other authors he believed were used by Jordanes but were not cited in Getica ( refer to the Mierow source cited below ).

Jordanes further claims that the high priest held " almost royal powers " and taught the " Goths " a code of laws called the " belagines laws ", but also ethics, philosophy and sciences, including physics and astronomy.

" Jordanes in his Getica also wrote that Thule sat under the pole-star.

Jordanes also states that the king put to death a young woman named Sunilda with the use of horses, because of her infidelity.

Parallels have also been drawn to the account of Attila's burial in Jordanes ' Getica.

Prior to the Viking Age is a gap in the history of the region for a few hundred years, but in Jordanes we also find regions of the same but earlier forms of names, presumably also petty kingdoms under now unknown chiefs.

The Lemovii have also been equated with Jordanes ' Turcilingi, together with the Rugii with Ptolemy's Rhoutikleioi, also with Ptolemy's Leuonoi and with the Leonas of the Widsith.

The Getae were also assumed to be the ancestors of the Goths by Jordanes in his Getica written at the middle of the 6th century.

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

Jordanes also merges Hittite history with that of the Goths, writing that a " Gothic " king Tanausis fought Vesosis, the king of Egypt in a battle at the river of Phasis and then pursued the Egyptians all the way back to Egypt.

Jordanes ( XXIV: 121 ) also relates that Filimer expelled the völvas, who were called Aliorumnas ( probably Halju-runnos, meaning " hell-runners " or " runners to the realm of the dead ", which refers to their shamanistic experiences during trance ).

Finding ways to equate Pliny's Hilleviones, Tacitus ' Suiones and Jordanes ' Suehans was a goal pursued with special vigor in the 17th century by the Rudbeckians of the Swedish Hyperborean School, who hoped to show that Sweden was not only the home of the original Goths, but also the " womb of mankind ".

Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium " just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon ( 108 ).

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 tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium " just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon ( 108 ).

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.

According to Jordanes ( following Priscus ), sometime during the peace following the Huns ' withdrawal from Byzantium ( probably around 445 ), Bleda died ( killed by his brother, according to the classical sources ), and Attila took the throne for himself.

Jordanes, who quotes Priscus in Getica, located the Acatziri to the south of the Aesti ( Balts ) — roughly the same region as the Agathyrsi of Transylvania — and he described them as " a very brave tribe ignorant of agriculture, who subsist on their flocks and by hunting.

Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names and three words of the language of the Huns, which has been studied for more than a century and a half.

Mundzuk ( rendered Mundzucus by Jordanes, Turkey-Turkish Boncuk, Kazak-Turkish Muncuk, English Pearl Μουνδίουχος by Priscus, 390-434 ) ( Also called " Bendegúz " in Hungarian ) was a Hunnic prince and brother of Hunnic rulers Octar ( Optar ) and Rugila ( Ruas ).

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

Alternatively, Jordanes ' conversio may mean that he had become a monk, or a religiosus, or a member of the clergy.

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.

Castalius would like a short book about the subject, and Jordanes obliges with an excerpt based on memory, possibly supplemented with other material he had access to.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

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.

The Gothic language had ( based only on Jordanes who glossed anses with uncertain meaning, possibly ' demi-god ' and presumably a Latinized form of actual plural ).

According to Jordanes, the Alan king Sangiban, whose foederati realm included Aurelianum, had promised to open the city gates ; this siege is confirmed by the account of the Vita S. Anianus and in the later account of Gregory of Tours, although Sangiban's name does not appear in their accounts.

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 ' work had been well known prior to Mommsen's 1882 edition.

It was cited in Edward Gibbon's classic 6 volumes of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ), and had been earlier mentioned by Degoreus Whear ( 1623 ) who refers to both Jordanes ' De regnorum ac temporum successione and to De rebus Geticis.

Jordanes admits that he did not then have direct access to Cassiodorus's book, and could not remember the exact words, but that he felt confident that he had retained the substance in its entirety.

Jordanes does cite some writers well before his time, to whose works he had access but we do not, and other writers whose works are still extant.

The early Late Latin of Jordanes evidences a certain variability in the structure of the language which has been taken as an indication that the author no longer had a clear standard of correctness.

Jordanes ascribes her hatred to another cause: he says that Illus had infused jealous suspicions into Zeno's mind which had led Zenoan attempt on her life, and that her knowledge of these things stimulated her to revenge.

High ranking families from the Goths had been shifting away to " distant " and derelict Spanish regions across the Pyrenees, according to Jordanes, where land tenure was up for grabs in the depopulated high plains of Castile and the draft in military duties was easier to dodge.