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'''Iordanis''', known in English as '''Jornandes''', '''Jord'anes''' or '''Jordanes''' (also '''Jordanis''' or perhaps even Iordanem, '''Iornandes,''' 'bold as a boar')<ref>{{catholic}}; qoute: ''It is not really proven, for example, that he bore "before his conversion" the martial name of Jornandes (i.e. bold as a boar), nor that after this conversion he became a monk in Thrace or in Maesia''; URL:[http://www.findthepower.net/CP/PostNewABC.php?CEC=ON&SeeAlso=Jordanis%20(Jornandes)]</ref>, was a [[6th century]] bureaucrat of the Eastern Roman Empire,<ref>"If Jordanes was a bishop (as is frequently assumed) and if he lived in Italy (also frequently assumed), those elements of his background have left no trace in his two histories" (Brian Croke, "Cassiodorus and the ''Getica'' of Jordanes" ''Classical Philology'' '''82'''.2 [April 1987, pp. 117-134] p 119.).</ref> who turned his hand to [[history]] late in life.

Though he wrote a history of Rome ''([[Romana (Jordanes)|Romana]]''), or compendium of universal history, often called ''[[De regnorum ac temporum successione]]'', also ''[[De breviatione chronicorum]]'', but acording to [[Theodore Mommsen|Mommsen]]: ''[[De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum]]''.<ref>The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge WILHELM ALTMANN url http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc06/htm/iii.lvii.cxiv.htm page 228</ref>

The book most of interest to us now is ''[[Dethe origineoriginal actibusquemanuscript Getarum]]''orwriten ''Deby origineJordanes etbut actibusquewas Getarum''burnt <ref>Theby NewMommsen Schaff(acidentaly<!--Herzog?-->) Encyclopediain ofhis Religious Knowledge WILHELM ALTMANN url http://wwwworkroom.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc06/htm/iii.lvii.cxiv.htm pageWe 228(''[[Thehave Origin and Deeds of the Goths]]''),only orreadable ''[[Getica(Jordanes)|Getica]]'', book written in Latin two years after the fire by German scholar Theodore Momsen<ref>[[Theodor Mommsen]], (''MGH: AA'' 5.1:vi) observed many forms of grammar and orthography that revealed a translation into Greek from a Latin original.</ref> (

Latin was probably Jordanes' third language) at [[Constantinople]]<ref>"Constantinople is "our city" (''Getica'' 38).</ref> about [[551]] CE.<ref>He mentions the great [[plague]] of 546 as having occurred "nine years ago" (''Getica'' 104.)</ref>

The accidents of life and time have rendered it the only source remaining to us concerning the origin of the [[Goths|Gothic]] people who occupied the shores of the [[Baltic Sea]] around today's [[Poland]], extended southward to the [[Black Sea]], formed a distinct empire and a distinct language, [[Gothic language|Gothic]], were defeated by the [[Huns]] and gradually dispersed throughout Europe, to disappear by assimilation.<ref>See [[Goths]].</ref>