Gothiscandza

Gothiscandza designated according to Jordanes, a late antique Roman- Gothic scholar and historian of the 6th century, the area of ​​origin of the Goths. This was located in the older research in Scandinavia; on the other hand speaks according to recent findings of the lack of archaeological evidence for an immigration from the North. Recent research is based on an ethno-genesis in the Vistula Delta.

From the name Gothiscandza is said to derive the later names of Gdansk, in the opinion of various medieval historians, such as " Gyddanyzc " in the Chronicle of John Canaparius over the 997 slain Bishop Adalbert of Prague, who baptized many Prussia in Gyddanczyc, but then as a spy was suspected because he had been sent by the Polish duke Boleslaw I, who had recently conquered the territory of Pomerania to Prussia land.

The Goths should come after the tribal legend ( Origo gentis ) from the island Scandza (Scandinavia), from which they led their king Berig on three ships to ' Gothiscandza ', where they settled for five generations after they ousted the Rugians and vandals or had destroyed. . They then moved with the king Filimer the Black Sea.

This origin story is largely rejected in modern research as untenable. In the area of the Vistula estuary and the Gulf of Gdansk is indeed confirmed by the brown wood - Willenberg and the Oxhöft culture, the presence of groups which are counted among the precursors of the Goths in the 1st and 2nd century AD. People today usually assumed that the Goths "on the spot " developed. An immigration from Scandinavia is certainly archaeologically undetectable, especially since today is known that Jordanes was often unreliable in his description. From 238 AD, the Goths are detected at the mouth of the Danube, where they entered the field of view of the Roman historian ( Dexippos ).

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