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In the Gothic language, the Goths were called the *Gut-þiuda ('Gothic people') or *Gutans ('Goths'). [9] [10] The Proto-Germanic form of the Gothic name is recostructed as *Gutōz, but it is proposed that this co-existed with an n-stem variant *Gutaniz, attested in Gutones, gutani, or gutniskr.
Concerning the origin of the Goths before the 3rd century, there is no consensus among scholars. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was in the 3rd century that the Goths began to be described by Roman writers as an increasingly important people north of the lower Danube and Black Sea , in the area of modern Romania , Republic of Moldova , and Ukraine .
The origin and meaning of the name of the Goths is often considered of great significance to research on the origins of the Goths. [70] On the basis of name evidence, Piergiuseppe Scardigli writes that is impossible to deny that there was a relationship between the Geats and the Goths. [71]
There were several origin stories of the Gothic peoples recorded by Latin and Greek authors in late antiquity (roughly 3rd–8th centuries AD), and these are relevant not only to the study of literature, but also to attempts to reconstruct the early history of the Goths, and other peoples mentioned in these stories.
Gothic names can be found in Roman records as far back as the 4th century AD. After the Muslim invasion of Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in the early 8th century, the Gothic tradition was largely interrupted, although Gothic or pseudo-Gothic names continued to be given in the Kingdom of Asturias in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths; Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language; Gothic (Unicode block) Geats, sometimes called Goths, a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland
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] (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ k ə /), 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 ...
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.