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.

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.

Even if it is far more probable that Jordanes just introduced his own philosophical knowledge in the text, a lot of modern Romanian authors considers that Deceneus is a priest who reforms the Getae cult, changing Zalmoxis ' cult into a popular religion and imposing strict religious rules such as the restriction of wine consumption.

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.

The Getica is a historical book written by Jordanes in which he mixes the Goths with the Getae.

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.

Jordanes wrote that “ Getae ( Dacians ) are the same with Goths, on the testimony of Orosius Paulus ”

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 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.

Records of this era are made by Procopius, Jordanes and others.

Both Pliny the Elder ( Natural History book iv ) and Jordanes are aware that the names in Sar-and in Sauro-are interchangeable variants, referring to the same people.

The figures of both Jordanes and Hydatius are implausibly high.

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

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:

Drawings from other schools such as the Flemish, French and German comprise a smaller group but there are significant works by Rubens, Jordanes, Teniers, Corneille Blanchard and Mengs.

The events, persons and peoples of Getica are put forward as being up to many centuries prior to the time of Jordanes.

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.

There are only three ancient sources on Burebista: Strabo: Geographica 7. 3. 5, 7. 3. 11 and 16. 2. 39 ( who spells his name Byrebistas and Boirebistas ); Jordanes: Getica 67 ( spells his name Buruista ); and a marble inscription found in Balchik, Bulgaria ( now found at the National Museum in Sofia ) which represents a decree by the citizens of Dionysopolis about Akornion.

There are repeated references by Tolkien to a historic account of the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields by Jordanes.

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.

The Egðir are believed to be the same etymologically as the Augandzi people mentioned in the Getica of Jordanes, who wrote of Scandza ( Scandinavia ) in the 6th century.

They are mentioned in the 6th century in Jordanes ' Getica, by Procopius, and by Gregory of Tours.

It is unknown whether Riothamus was a king in Britain or of Armorica ; as Armorica was a British colony and Jordanes writes that Riothamus " crossed the ocean ", it is possible both are correct.

He is briefly mentioned in Jordanes ( Getica 180 ): " Now this Attila was the son of Mundiuch, and his brothers were Octar and Ruas who are said to have ruled before Attila, though not over quite so many tribes as he.

These mounted elite warriors are mentioned in the work of the 6th century Goth scholar Jordanes, who wrote that the Swedes had the best horses beside the Thuringians.

In a second theory, the Hǫrðar are identical to the Arochi dwelling in the Scandza mentioned in the Getica of Jordanes, which dates to the 6th century, but might refer to any time prior to then.

If so, the Hilleviones could be the same as the Hallin, of Scandza, who are mentioned by Jordanes.

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

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?

Jordanes supports this hypothesis by telling us on the one hand that he was familiar with the Geography of Ptolemy, which includes the entire Balto-Slavic territory in Sarmatia, and on the other that this same region was Scythia.

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.

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.

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

The 6th-century Goth scholar Jordanes wrote in his Getica about a tribe located in Scandza which he named the Raumarici and which seems to be the same name as Raumariki, the old name for Romerike.

Jordanes wrote that the Goths were descendents of Scythians and Thracians and thus had the same history.

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 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.