-
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...
- in the
Getica of Jordanes, as the king of the
Ranii on the "island" of
Scandza (what
Jordanes called Scandinavia), who left his
kingdom near the Danes...
- century,
Jordanes writes of the
Gautigoths and
Ostrogoths (the
Ostrogoths of
Scandza); and
Procopius refers to Gautoi. The
Norse Sagas know them as Gautar;...
- 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...
- 551), by the
historian Jordanes who
wrote that the
Goths originated on
Scandza many
centuries earlier, and
moved to the
Vistula delta. However, the accuracy...
- (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...
- and
Togarmah as
German tribes or as
German lands.
Ashkenaz is
linked to
Scandza/Scanzia,
viewed as the
cradle of
Germanic tribes, as
early as a 6th-century...
-
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...
