]> 2024-06-13T07:49:59+00:00 History of the Goths 0 1305 englanti 2021-11-28T11:10:14Z 2459546.9654398 History of the Goths <P align="justify"> Jordanes, who lived in the sixth century A.D. wrote a history of the Goths 'De origine aetibusque Getarum' (c A.D. 550), which is commonly referred to as The Getica. It is based on a corresponding work of Cassiodorus, but this having been lost, The Getica is a valuable source. Jordanes describes the Scandinavian peninsula (as an island called Scandza) and its peoples, and also some other parts of northern Europe. According to this work, Scandza was inhabited by both the <i>Finns</i>, who were more peaceful than all the other inhabitants of the "island", and the Screrefenni, who did not scavenge for cereal food but lived on the flesh of wild animals and birds eggs. In the bogs the birds gave birth to such large coveys that they could satisfy the needs of the tribe and still ensure the survival of the species. In the north of Scandza there liveda tribe called the Adogi, whose land was light for forty days and nights in the middle of summer and correspondingly without light in the middle of winter. This name, whose written form has probably been corrupted, is considered to refer to Hålogaland in Norway (cf. the Alokiai Islands in Ptolemy, the island of Halagaland in Adam of Bremen). The description is of the [[Middle Iron Age|Middle Iron Age]] (A.D. 250-800). <BR><BR> </P> Otsikko 102