Scandza was described as a "great island" by Gothic-Byzantine historian Jordanes in his work Getica. The island was located in the Arctic regions of the...

in the Getica of Jordanes, as the king of the Ranii on the "island" of Scandza (what Jordanes called Scandinavia), who left his kingdom near the Danes...

was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during the first half of the 1st century CE. He claimed that the name was...

century, Jordanes writes of the Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza); and Procopius refers to Gautoi. The Norse Sagas know them as Gautar;...

Germanic languages. In the sixth century, Jordanes names two tribes living in Scandza, both of which are now considered to be synonymous with the Swedes: the...

Mela, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius and Jordanes, usually in the form of Scandza. It is believed that the name used by Pliny may be of West Germanic origin...

(Ostrogothae) in a list of many peoples living on the large island of "Scandza", north of the mouth of the Vistula, which most modern scholars understand...

 551), by the historian Jordanes who wrote that the Goths originated on Scandza many centuries earlier, and moved to the Vistula delta. However, the accuracy...

Scandia or Scandza is an early name used for the Scandinavian Peninsula by the first cartographers charting northern Europe. Scandia may also refer to:...

and Togarmah as German tribes or as German lands. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, as early as a 6th-century...

Beowulf tribes and locations. See also Scandza for Scandinavia's political fragmentation in the 6th century....

(Dania) and Sweden (Suecia)), and had moved from there to the island of Scandza. One of Rollo's great-grandsons and a contemporary of Dudo was known as...

digression about the large northern island in the Baltic Sea known as "Scandza" to Jordanes. He is understood by modern scholars to have intended the...

an old form of Finnheden, Finn(h)aith-) when describing the nations of Scandza in Getica. The Scandinavian placenames Finnveden, Finnmark and the province...

mentioned in the Getica of Jordanes, who wrote of Scandza (Scandinavia) in the 6th century. If Jordanes's Scandza is a palatalized form of *Scandia, then Augandzi...

"Scandza", which is associated with Sweden by modern scholars, was the original homeland of the ancestors of the Goths and Gepids. They left Scandza together...

investments include FoodVest, Mater, Punch Taverns, RenoNorden, Scandi Standard, Scandza, United Coffee, Vaasan & Vaasan and Young's Bluecrest. In 1999, CapVest...

the poem's composition in Rendlesham, Suffolk, settled by Angles. See Scandza for details of Scandinavia's political fragmentation in the 6th century...

Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then...

A stone circle in the area of northern Poland where the Goths initially settled after emigration from Scandza....

especially of Scandza (16–24). He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza...

who, as some affirm, was driven on a certain island in Germany, called Scandza, (of which Jornandes, the historian of the Goths, speaks), a little boy...

who are called Vagoth (see Scandza). However, Ptolemy mentions the Goutai as living in the south of the island of Scandza; these could be identical to...

named two tribes, which he calls the Suehans and the Suetidi, who lived in Scandza. The Suehans, he says, have very fine horses just as the Thyringi tribe...

of dispute. The Getica begins with a discussion of a large island named Scandza, which faces the mouth of the Vistula river and had been described by the...

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...

sheaf of wheat. This is said to have occurred on an island named Scani or Scandza (Scania), and according to William of Malmesbury (Gesta regum Anglorum)...

his research on what Jordanes and other classical writers wrote about Scandza and the rest of Northern Europe. Orosiana. Syntaktische, semasiologische...

has been derived from the name Germania. Scythia Illyria Thrace Dacia Scandza Hibernia Thule Germania (city) Rhine Tacitus 1876a, II Murdoch 2004, p...

(551 CE), by Procopius, and by Gregory of Tours. In his description of Scandza, Jordanes says that the Dani were of the same stock as the Suetidi ("Swedes")...