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...

"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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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'...

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...

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...

ref duplicates default (link) Jordanes (1984). "O pochodzeniu i czynach Gotów". In Zwolski, E. (ed.). Kasjodor i Jordanes. Historia gocka, czyli scytyjska...

also be found in Pytheas, Pomponius Mela, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius and Jordanes, usually in the form of Scandza. It is believed that the name used by Pliny...

Cassiodorus and Jordanes; however, it is more likely that this was a fictitious claim designed to bolster Athalaric's legitimacy. Jordanes states "Hermanaric...

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

himself was killed in the battle. According to the 6th-century historian Jordanes: And so the bravest nations tore themselves to pieces. For then, I think...

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...

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...

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

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...

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)...

settling Danes. A short note about the Dani in Getica by the historian Jordanes is believed to be an early mention of the Danes, one of the ethnic groups...

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...