Definition of scandza. Meaning of scandza. Synonyms of scandza

- 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...
- the Danes, though his text does not connect this Rodulf to the Scandza Heruli. The Scandza p****age of Jordanes is subject to many different interpretations...
- 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...
- century, Jordanes writes of the Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza); and Procopius refers to Gautoi. The Norse Sagas know them as Gautar;...
- 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...
- (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...
- Jordanes. According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin). They settled and then...
- 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...
- (Dania) and Sweden (Suecia)), and had moved from there to the island of Scandza. One of Rollo's great-grandsons and a contemporary of Dudo was known as...