Jordanes says that Attila was afraid of sharing the fate of the Visigothic king Alaric, who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410.

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?

After the heads of Sebastianus and Jovinus arrived at Honorius ' court in Ravenna in late August, to be forwarded for display among other usurpers on the walls of Carthage, relations between Ataulf and Honorius improved sufficiently for Ataulf to cement them by marrying Galla Placidia perhaps at Narbo in early 414, but Jordanes says he married her in Italy, at Forlì ( Forum Livii ).

For example, Jordanes says that the Goths originated in Scandinavia 1490 BC.

Jordanes says in the preface to Getica that he obtained them from the librarian for three days in order to read them again ( relegi ).

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.

In his description of Scandza, Jordanes says that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi ( Swedes, Suithiod?

Jordanes names a multitude of tribes living in Scandza, which he named the Womb of nations, and says they were taller and more ferocious than the Germans ( archaeological evidence has shown the Scandinavians of the time were tall, probably due to their diet ).

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.

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

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.

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

* Jordanes publishes The Origin and Deeds 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

In later interpretations, which begin with Jordanes ( 6th century AC ) and have proliferated during the 19th and 20th century, mainly in Romania, he was regarded as the sole god of the Getae ( not to be confounded in this context with the Thracians or their relatives, the Dacians ) or as a legendary social and religious reformer of the Getae people to which he would have taught, following Herodotus, the belief in immortality, so that they considered dying merely as going to Zalmoxis.

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.

According to Jordanes, Aëtius feared that if the Huns were completely destroyed, the Visigoths would break off their allegiance to the Roman Empire and become an even graver threat.

Jordanes ' list for Attila's allies includes the Gepids under their king Ardaric, as well as an Ostrogothic army led by the brothers Valamir, Theodemir ( the father of the later Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great ) and Widimer, scions of the Amali.

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:

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.

Jordanes does give us a terminus ante quem for the use of Ragnaricii / Ranii: One of their kings, Rodwulf ( of the Ranii ), had left his kingdom to join Theodoric the Great in Ravenna.

According to a tale related by Jordanes, Gothiscandza was the first settlement of the Goths after their migration from Scandinavia ( Scandza ) during the first half of the 1st century CE.

Jordanes relates that the East Germanic tribe of Goths were led from Scandza by their king Berig.

Johannes Magnus made creative use of Jordanes ' Getica and of Saxo Grammaticus to depict a history of the Swedish people, of their kings, and of the " Goths abroad ".

Oium or Aujum was a name for an area in Scythia, where the Goths under their king Filimer settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551.

According to Jordanes, their royal line had originated near the sea of Azov, then moved northward toward Scandzia where they established a separate priest-king line on the island of Gotland.

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 ).

Jordanes, in Getica and mentions the Riparii as auxiliaries of Flavius Aetius during the Battle of Châlons in 451: " Hi enim affuerunt auxiliares: Franci, Sarmatae, Armoriciani, Liticiani, Burgundiones, Saxones, Riparii, Olibriones ..." The Riparii may not have been the Ripuarian Franks, as they do not appear for certain under that name until their final subjugation by Clovis I.