Iordanis, known in English as Jordanes (also Jordanis or even Iornandes, 'bold as a boar'), was a 6th century bureaucrat of the Eastern Roman Empire, who turned his hand to history late in life. Though he wrote a history of Rome "(Romana"), the book most of interest to us now are the manuscripts the source of "De origine actibusque Getarum" ("The Origin and Deeds of the Goths"), or "Getica", … Wikipedia
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