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  2. Goths - Wikipedia

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    A crucial source on Gothic history is the Getica of the 6th-century historian Jordanes, who may have been of Gothic descent. [31] [32] Jordanes claims to have based the Getica on an earlier lost work by Cassiodorus, but also cites material from fifteen other classical sources, including an otherwise unknown writer, Ablabius.

  3. Origin of the Goths - Wikipedia

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    Wolfram suspected the Gothic language to have originated among the Vandalic peoples. That the Goths were a ruling group within a mixed region is widely accepted. However, as part of his argumentation that they originated with the migration of large unmixed groups, Heather also proposed that the Goths continued to be a relatively exclusive group ...

  4. Origin stories of the Goths - Wikipedia

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    Differently to other Gothic origins stories however, Jordanes named at least two specific northern places where the ancestors of the Goths had lived more than a thousand years earlier. Scholars are uncertain about the precise origins of the various details of Jordanes' migration stories, and debate the extent to which real Gothic legends or the ...

  5. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

  6. Getica - Wikipedia

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    The title of the Getica as it appears in a 9th-century manuscript of Lorsch Abbey now in the Vatican Library. De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae [n 1]), [1] [2] [3] commonly abbreviated Getica, [4] written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, [5] [6] claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the ...

  7. Jordanes - Wikipedia

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    Jordanes (/ dʒ ɔːr ˈ d eɪ n iː z /; Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, [a] was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, [b] widely believed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life. He wrote two works, one on Roman history and the other on the Goths .

  8. Gothicism - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from the Gothicists' belief that the Goths had originated from Sweden, based on Jordanes' account of a Gothic urheimat in Scandinavia ().The Gothicists took pride in the Gothic tradition that the Ostrogoths and their king Theodoric the Great, who assumed power in the Roman Empire, had Scandinavian ancestry.

  9. Crimean Goths - Wikipedia

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    A Gothic principality around the stronghold of Doros (modern Mangup), the Principality of Theodoro, continued to exist through various periods of vassalage to the Byzantines, Khazars, Kipchaks, Mongols, Genoese and other empires until 1475, when it was finally incorporated in the Khanate of Crimea and the Ottoman Empire. This is generally ...