Amali, I also, Jordanes, although an unlearned man before my conversion, was secretary. Paria was Jordanes's paternal grandfather. Jordanes writes that he...
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Getica (redirect from Getica (Jordanes))
past. In the account of Jordanes (or Cassiodorus), Herodotus' Getian demi-god Zalmoxis becomes a king of the Goths (39). Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked...
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York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19881-625-6. Jordanes (1915). The Gothic History of Jordanes. Translated by Charles C. Mierow. London: Oxford University...
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"The Aims of Jordanes", Historia, 31: 223–240, archived from the original on April 30, 2006 Arne Søby Christensen (2002), Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History...
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Empire. However, Jordanes' account of Gothic history is notoriously unreliable. Modern scholars now believe that this explanation was Jordanes projecting contemporary...
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history is the Getica of the 6th-century historian Jordanes, who may have been of Gothic descent. Jordanes claims to have based the Getica on an earlier lost...
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were subjected to the Huns, in the 440s, according to Jordanes. Goffart, sceptical of Jordanes, has suggested that "scattered evidence", including descriptions...
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Getica, Jordanes describes Odoacer as king of the Turcilingi (Torcilingorum rex) with Scirian and Heruli followers, in another passage Jordanes mentions...
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Jordane Nicolle (born 20 December 1982) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches between 2001 and 2005. Nicolle attended Falcon...
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Origin stories of the Goths (section Jordanes)
of the Goths in late antiquity are those by Jordanes, Isidore of Seville, and Procopius, although Jordanes focused especially on the Amal clan's supposed...
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legions (12.21). Jerome, Chronicon, Ol. 258; Jordanes, Romana, 285. Zosimus, New History, i.28.1–2. Jordanes, Getica, 105. Varner 2004, p. 209. Eutropius...
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Swedes (tribe) (section Jordanes)
possibly first mentioned locally by the Kylver Stone in the 4th century. Jordanes, in the 6th century, mentions Suehans and Suetidi. Beowulf mentions the...
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century by Jordanes, as people who had lived on the Baltic coast near the Vistula long before him. In a passage that is difficult to interpret Jordanes mentioned...
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Gothiscandza (section Jordanes' account)
According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during...
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Vithimiris was elected as the new king. According to Jordanes' Getica, Ermanaric ruled the realm of Oium. Jordanes describes him as a "Gothic Alexander" who "ruled...
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if correct, may only account for the Byzantine Slavs of Jordanes and Procopius since Jordanes clearly (see above) understands Veneti as a group at least...
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Riothamus (section Jordanes, Getica, XLV.237–238)
Empire. He is called "King of the Britons" by the 6th-century historian Jordanes, but the extent of his realm is unclear. Some Arthurian scholars identify...
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Gutones (section Comparison to Jordanes' Getica)
Gothiscandza, and that this name still existed in the time of Jordanes. According to Jordanes, the Goths then moved to an area near the coast inhabited by...
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Olibrones or Olibriones are a group of Roman allies mentioned by Jordanes in his account of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 AD between Aetius'...
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3. 115-116 Jordanes, Getica 38. 197 and 201 Jordanes, Getica 40. 209 and 41. 214; Hydatius, chronicle 150, in: MGH AA 11, p. 26 Jordanes, Getica 36....
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Ostrogotha (section Jordanes)
Century, mentioned by the 6th-century historian Jordanes. He was a contemporary of King Cniva. Jordanes' account differs with those of Zosimus and Joannes...
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Egyptians told by Orosius with Jordanes recasting a Scythian king as a king of the Goths. Sesostris The Goths, by Jordanes, Chapter 6: War of Tanausis and...
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ancestral to Swedish and other North Germanic languages. In the sixth century, Jordanes names two tribes living in Scandza, both of which are now considered to...
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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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cited extensively by 6th-century historians Procopius and Jordanes,: 413 especially in Jordanes' The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, which contains numerous...
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Sthlabenoi (Σθλαβηνοί), or Sklabinoi (Σκλαβῖνοι), and his contemporary Jordanes refers to the Sclaveni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Church...
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tribe, Jordanes and Procopius both appear to suggest that the Antes were Slavic by the 5th century. In describing the lands of Scythia, Jordanes states...
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was ostensibly a chieftain of the Huns, mentioned by Jordanes in his Getica (c. 550 AD). Jordanes simply called him "king of the Huns" (Latin: rex Hunnorum)...
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