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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    century, Jordanes writes of the Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza); and Procopius refers to Gautoi. The Norse Sagas know them as Gautar;...
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    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...
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    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...
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    (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...
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  •  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...
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  • Scandia or Scandza is an early name used for the Scandinavian Peninsula by the first cartographers charting northern Europe. Scandia may also refer to:...
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    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...
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  • Beowulf tribes and locations. See also Scandza for Scandinavia's political fragmentation in the 6th century....
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    (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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    "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...
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  • investments include FoodVest, Mater, Punch Taverns, RenoNorden, Scandi Standard, Scandza, United Coffee, Vaasan & Vaasan and Young's Bluecrest. In 1999, CapVest...
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    an old form of Finnheden, Finn(h)aith-) when describing the nations of Scandza in Getica. The Scandinavian placenames Finnveden, Finnmark and the province...
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    the poem's composition in Rendlesham, Suffolk, settled by Angles. See Scandza for details of Scandinavia's political fragmentation in the 6th century...
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    Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then...
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  • A stone circle in the area of northern Poland where the Goths initially settled after emigration from Scandza....
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    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...
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    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...
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  • his research on what Jordanes and other classical writers wrote about Scandza and the rest of Northern Europe. Orosiana. Syntaktische, semasiologische...
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    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...
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  • (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")...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    has been derived from the name Germania. Scythia Illyria Thrace Dacia Scandza Hibernia Thule Germania (city) Rhine Tacitus 1876a, II Murdoch 2004, p...
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