As this hypothesis discounts Jordanes ' judgement but accepts his tribal picture, it is not generally accepted.

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.

* 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.

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

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.

Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.

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

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.

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.

Not only that but it seems that Jordanes has distorted Cassiodorus's narrative by presenting us a cursory abridgement of the latter, mixed with 6th century ethnic names.

Jordanes tells us in Getica that he interrupted work on the Romana to write Getica, and then finished Romana.

Prominent Swedish archaeologist Göran Burenhult, regards Jordanes us a unique glimpse into the tribes of Scandinavia in the 6th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed to settle on Roman soil as a state within a state.

The historian Jordanes states that Attila was enticed by the Vandals ' king Gaiseric to wage war on the Visigoths.

Jordanes ' recorded number of 15, 000 dead on either side for this skirmish is not verifiable.

According to Jordanes, the Catalaunian plain rose on one side by a sharp slope to a ridge.

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 ).

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 ).

Jordanes stated that Getae are the same as the Goths, on the testimony of Orosius Paulus.

Former notarius to a Gothic magister militum Gunthigis, Jordanes would have been in a position to know traditions concerning the Gothic peoples without necessarily relying on anyone else.

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.

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.

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.