[gothic-l] Dudo's Gastae Normandorium

[Le Bateman]

There has been  much talk lately about the ancestral home of the Goths,
being Scania
according to Dudo the Germanic speaking people came from the  area he called
Scania
Citing Dudo.
     Thus, spread over the plentiful space from the Danube to the
neighborhood of the scythian Black Sea, do there inhabit fierce and
barbarous nations, which are said to have burst forth in manifold variety
like a swarm of bees from a honeycomb or a sword from a sheath, as is the
barbarian custom, from the island of Scania, surrounded in different
directions by the ocean. For indeed there is there a tract for the very many
people of Alania, and the extremely well-supplied region of Dacia, and the
very extensive passage of Greece. Dacia is the middle-most of these.
Protected by very high alps in the manner of a crown and after the fashion
of a city. With Mars' forewarning, raging warlike peoples inhabit those
tortuous bends of extensive size, namely the Getae, also known as Goths,
Sarmatians and Amacsobii, Tragoditae and Alans, and also very many nations
who live by cultivating in the Baltic marshes. (note 2)
Le



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