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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then...

(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...

(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...

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 AD), 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")...

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...

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"...

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)...

achievements, the author Procopius provides information on the big island Scandza, which the Goths come from. He expects that of the tribes who live here...

century. He also claims that at one point the "Getae" migrated out of Scandza, while identifying their deity Zalmoxis as a Gothic king. Jordanes assumed...