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  Getica (Jordanes) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Because Cassiodorus' original version has not survived, Jordanes' work is one of the most important sources for the period of the migration of the European tribes, and the Ostrogoths and Visigoths in particular, from the 3rd century CE.
His and the Goths' most successful years were perhaps the reign of Theodoric.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Benedict of Nursia
Work is not, as the civilization of the time taught, the condition peculiar to slaves; it is the universal lot of man, necessary for his well-being as a man, and essential for him as a Christian.
Benedict originated a form of government which is deserving of study.
The ability to exercise this form of prayer is fostered by that care of the "heart" on which the saint so often insists; and the heart is saved from the dissipation that would result from social intercourse by the habit of mind which sees in everyone Christ Himself.
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Therefore Theodoric was given as a hostage by the Goths and brought to the city of Constantinople to the Emperor Leo and, being a goodly child, deservedly gained the imperial favor.
A battle was fought and the party of the Goths was found to be so much the stronger that the plain was drenched in the blood of their fallen foes and looked like a crimson sea.
When the army of the Goths perceived this, they distrusted Theodahad and clamored for his expulsion from the kingdom and for the appointment as king of their leader Vitiges, who had been his armor bearer.
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 Goths Tribe
Early Goth leaders from Jordanes in his "Getica": "Now from this island of Scandza, as from a hive of races or a womb of nations, the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king, Berig by name....
OSTROGOTHS The Ostrogoths are the "goths of the east".
VISIGOTHS The Visigoths are the "goths of the west".
www.duerinck.com /goths.html   (2146 words)

  
 THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
Now although Hermanaric, king of the Goths, was the conqueror of many tribes, as we have said above, yet while he was deliberating on this invasion of the Huns, the treacherous tribe of the Rosomoni, who at that time were among those who owed him their homage, took this chance to catch him unawares.
Thus that day put an end to the famine of the Goths and the safety of the Romans, for the Goths no longer as strangers and pilgrims, but as citizens and lords, began to rule the inhabitants and to hold in their own right all the northern country as far as the Danube.
The Goths, not knowing that an emperor lay hidden in so poor a hut, set fire to it (as is customary in dealing with a cruel foe), and thus he was cremated in royal splendor.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html   (22933 words)

  
 THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
XI (67) Then when Buruista was King of the Goths, Dicineus came to Gothia at the time when Sulla ruled the Romans.
It was by his advice the Goths ravaged the lands of the Germans, which the Franks now possess.
This name the Goths accepted and prized highly, and they retain it to this day in their songs.
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 Origin - Origin of Phrases - Have Origins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Origin Publishing Ltd is a BBC Worldwide Group Company.
Until the rise of modern science, origin myths provided the only kinds of answers possible to such questions.
Origin Pacific is New Zealand's regional airline, offering a full service of fast, frequent flights throughout New Zealand.
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 Jordanes - Latin & English - First half
De qua et Pomponius Mela in maris sinu Codano positam refert, cujus ripas influit Oceanus.
Wherefore the Goths have ever been wiser than other barbarians and were nearly like the Greeks, as Dio relates, who wrote their history and annals with a Greek pen.
Tunc Tomyris regina, aucta victoria tantaque praeda de inimicis potita, in partem Moesiae, quae nunc, a magna Scythia nomine mutuato, "minor Scythia" appellatur, transiens, ibi in Ponti Moesiaco litore Tomos civitatem suo de nomine aedificavit.
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 Jordanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
IX (58) But say not "Why does a story which deals with the men of the Goths have so much to say of their women?" Hear, then, the tale of the famous and glorious valor of the men.
XXI (110) After these events, the Goths had already returned home when they were summoned at the request of the Emperor Maximian to aid the Romans against the Parthians.
XXIII (116) Soon Geberich, king of the Goths, departed from human affairs and Hermanaric, noblest of the Amali, succeeded to the throne.
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 Cash Flow Notes - Deeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Recording office for Barnstable County's deeds, mortgages and other land records.
L'histoire de Longfellow Deeds l'incroyable héritier de 40 milliards de dollars.
Among its offerings is a searchable deeds database.
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 The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes
This part of the Goths, which is said to have crossed 28 the river and entered with Filimer into the country of Oium, came into possession of the desired land, and there they soon came upon the race of the Spali, joined battle with them and won the victory.
Some of the ancient writers 29 also agree with the tale.
Among these we may mention Josephus, a most reliable relator of annals, who everywhere follows the rule of truth and unravels from the beginning the origin of causes;--but why he has omitted the beginnings of the
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 ! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Links !
Jordanes - The Origin and Deeds of The Goths -translated by Charles C. Mierow
Germania - Tacitus, an important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at the then end of the first century.
Origin of the Runes - By Steve Pollington, hosted by the folk over at Gesithas.
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 THE GOTHIC HISTORY OF JORDANES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mierow prefaces his translation with a detailed literary analysis of all the topics in the text; this is not, however, reproduced here.
For even as it happened to the line of the Augusti, as we have stated above, so too it appears in the line of the Alarici, that kingdoms often come to an end in kings who bear the same name as those at the beginning.
Meanwhile let us leave this subject, and weave together the whole story of the origin of the Goths, as we promised.
www.vitaphone.org /history/jordanes.html   (22912 words)

  
 Latin Authors on the Web
Anglo-Saxon adaptations of the De Consolatione Philosophiae - Malcolm Godden (University of Oxford) et al.
Claudii Claudiani Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti - James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania)
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths - J. Vanderspoel (University of Calgary)
users.telenet.be /herman.lauvrys/authorsl.htm   (1454 words)

  
 The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes
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 The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes - Project Gutenberg
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes - Project Gutenberg
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 Northvegr - Roman Scandinavia - Primary Sources
Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths I-IV; From Charles C. Mierow (1908)
IV (25) Now from this island of Scandza, as from a hive of races or a womb of nations, the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king, Berig by name.
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