to the study of literature, but also to attempts to reconstruct the early history of the Goths, and other peoples mentioned in these stories. The earliest...

Concerning the origin of the Goths before the 3rd century, there is no consensus among scholars. It was in the 3rd century that the Goths began to be described...

origin and history of the Goths, although to what extent it should be considered history or origin mythology is a matter of dispute. The Getica begins with...

The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first...

469, the Visigoths were called the "Alaric Goths". The Frankish Table of Nations, probably of Byzantine or Italian origin, referred to one of the two peoples...

Hlöðskviða (also Hlǫðskviða and Hlǫðsqviða), known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied...

a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin. These...

played these Pannonian Goths off against the Thracian Goths to their south. However, instead the two groups united after the death of the Thracian leader Theoderic...

Tanausis was a legendary king of the Goths, according to Jordanes's Getica (5.47). The 19th-century scholar Alfred von Gutschmid assigned his reign to...

The Amali – also called Amals, Amalings or Amalungs – were a leading dynasty of the Goths, a Germanic people who confronted the Roman Empire during the...

fertile part of it, roughly in modern Ukraine, where the Goths, under a legendary King Filimer, settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica...

address the issue of the origin of the Romanians. The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček...

fashion. The music preferred by goths includes a number of styles such as gothic rock, death rock, cold wave, dark wave and ethereal wave. The Gothic fashion...

that of the Goths (Gutans), and both names were originally Proto-Germanic *Gutaniz. Their language is called Gutnish (gutniska). They are one of the progenitor...

denote the Goths. As described in its legends, Tyrfing was the keenest of all blades; every time it was drawn a light shone from it like a ray of the sun...

Germanic heroic legend. It tells of wars between the Goths and the Huns during the 4th century. The final part of the saga, which was likely composed separately...

(topoi) mixed in the origo gentis. At the center of the story is the origin myth of the respective group of people (such as the Goths, Lombards, Anglo-Saxons...

Alarīks, "ruler of all"; c. 370 – 411 AD) was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410. He rose to leadership of the Goths who came to occupy...

each other. From the Middle Ages until 1974, Swedish monarchs claimed the title King of the Geats as "King of Sweden and Geats/Goths" or "Rex Sweorum...

origin and deeds of the Goths traces the line of the Amelungs up to Hulmul son of Gapt, purportedly the first Gothic hero of record. This Gapt is felt...

Steinacher 2017, p. 168. Goffart (2006, p. 208) Jordanes (1908). The Origins and Deeds of the Goths. Translated by Mierow, Charles C. Princeton University Press...

The Gothic War of 376–382 was one of several Gothic Wars in Roman history in which the Goths fought against the Roman Empire. This particular conflict...

called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle...

subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure. In 376, a large migration of Goths and other...

Romanorumque rex 'King of the Goths and Romans', demonstrating his desire to be a leader for both peoples. Under Justinian I, the Byzantine Empire embarked...

Serbia, roughly between the Tisza, Sava, and Carpathian Mountains. They were said to share the religion and language of the Goths and Vandals. They are...

polytheism was the original religion of the Goths before their conversion to Christianity. The Goths first appear in historical records in the early 3rd century...

an origin story (Origo gentis) about the Goths, the Getica, which claims that the Goths and many other peoples came from Scandinavia, the "womb of nations"...

strengthened the position of the Salian Franks and the Burgundians. He argues that it ultimately led to the victory of Childeric and the Franks over the Goths, the...

that their origin was as follows : Filimer, king of the Goths, son of Gadaric the Great, who was the fifth in succession to hold the rule of the Getae after...