Jordanes, also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, widely believed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life.
The deeds of Dacians and Getae (here from Trajan's Column) were wrongly attributed to Goths by Jordanes
The Goths were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
Depiction of a Gothic warrior battling Roman cavalry, from the 3rd century Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus
A stone circle in the area of northern Poland occupied by the Wielbark culture, which is associated with the Goths
Gothic invasions in the 3rd century
The 3rd-century Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus depicts a battle between Goths and Romans.