Amali, I also, Jordanes, although an unlearned man before my conversion, was secretary. Paria was Jordanes's paternal grandfather. Jordanes writes that he...

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...

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...

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...

according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551. It is generally assumed that the story reproduced by Jordanes contains a historical core, although...

"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...

Empire. However, Jordanes' account of Gothic history is notoriously unreliable. Modern scholars now believe that this explanation was Jordanes projecting contemporary...

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...

were subjected to the Huns, in the 440s, according to Jordanes. Goffart, sceptical of Jordanes, has suggested that "scattered evidence", including descriptions...

Jordane Nicolle (born 20 December 1982) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches between 2001 and 2005. Nicolle attended Falcon...

Getica, Jordanes describes Odoacer as king of the Turcilingi (Torcilingorum rex) with Scirian and Heruli followers; in another passage Jordanes mentions...

Century, mentioned by the 6th-century historian Jordanes. He was a contemporary of King Cniva. Jordanes' account differs with those of Zosimus and Joannes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

possibly first mentioned locally by the Kylver Stone in the 4th century. Jordanes, in the 6th century, mentions Suehans and Suetidi. Beowulf mentions the...

Byzantinae, ed. Dindorf, Weber, Bohn, 1829 Jordanes, Getica, par. 101–103 from The Gothic History of Jordanes (English Version), ed. Charles C. Mierow,...

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...

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....

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...

Sthlabenoi (Σθλαβηνοί), or Sklabinoi (Σκλαβῖνοι), and his contemporary Jordanes refers to the Sclaveni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Church...

Indo-European, in which case it would be older than the Nordics in the region. Jordanes does give us a terminus ante quem for the use of Ragnaricii/Ranii: One...

name who is described in the Getica of Jordanes, as the king of the Ranii on the island of Scandza (what Jordanes called Scandinavia), who left his kingdom...

cited extensively by 6th-century historians Procopius and Jordanes,: 413  especially in Jordanes' The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, which contains numerous...

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 6th-century writer Jordanes. Putting aside recent attempts to find other types of evidence to confirm his story, Jordanes is the original source of...

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)...

Getae/Goths") written by Jordanes in the 6th century. Getica may also refer to: Getica (Dio), a historical book which Suidas, Jordanes, and Freculphus attribute...