Re: Getae or Goths

So does this mean that the "Goths" that Jordanes wrote about in his
story of the haliorunnae being expelled by the Gothic king, mating
with demons, and giving birth to Huns were really Getae?

Or that the "Gothic" translation of the bible really wasn't?

Max

>****GK: The Getae of Jordanes were well known to
>classical writers. There was nothing "nondescript"
>about them. The Getae of BCE and I-II cs.CE were
>Getae, not Goths. Their history was later "borrowed"
>by Gothic historians.