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...

the Danes, though his text does not connect this Rodulf to the Scandza Heruli. The Scandza passage of Jordanes is subject to many different interpretations...

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...

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...

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

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...

(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...

details. According to Jordanes, the Goths originated on an island called Scandza (Scandinavia), from where they emigrated by sea to an area called Gothiscandza...

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

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

Syria, but later became associated with Germania. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, as early as a 6th-century...

nationalist American Renaissance. In 2018, Nyborg spoke at the far-right Scandza Forum conference in Copenhagen, Denmark having met "top people from the...

"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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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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Ukraine and the Soviet Union List of Germanic tribes Oium Ostrogoths Scandza Visigoths Wielbark culture Here/Hari (army/noble) + mann/man + ric/rike...

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...

Heruli claimed to be the tallest people of Scandza. Jordanes further writes that all the peoples of Scandza "surpassed the Germans in size and spirit"...

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

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...

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

thought to be ceremonial horns but of a raid purpose. In his description of Scandza (from the 6th-century work, Getica), the ancient writer Jordanes says that...

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)...