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.

Mediterranean world as Jordanes wrote his Getica.

Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

Jordanes wrote his Romana at the behest of a certain Vigilius.

Modern Istanbul, site of ancient Constantinople, capital of the eastern Roman Empire, where Jordanes wrote Getica.

Jordanes states in Romana that he wrote it in the 24th year of the emperor Justinian, which began April 1, 551.

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

The Gothic author Jordanes, who wrote in Constantinople, ended his work Getica in 550 or 551 AD.

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.

Jordanes in his Getica wrote something similar:

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.

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

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

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.

A Danish historian, Arne Søby has nonetheless proposed that Cassiodorus, who wrote the original text on which Jordanes ' work is based, invented him, with inspiration from the name of Βέρικος ( Berikos or Verica ).

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

In the 6th century AD, Jordanes wrote that among the many tribes inhabiting the island of Scandza were the Suehans and the Hallins.

Jordanes wrote in 551 that the Gothic king Ermanaric was upset with the attack of a subordinate king and had his wife Sunilda ( i. e. Svanhild ) torn to pieces by horses, and as revenge Ermanaric was pierced with spears by her brothers Ammius ( Hamdir ) and Sarus ( Sörli ) and died from the wounds.

Jordanes wrote in 551 AD that Ermanaric, king of the Gothic Greuthungi, was upset with the attack of a subordinate king and had his young wife Sunilda ( i. e. Svanhild ) torn apart by four horses.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.