"Gothic history, as it appears in every modern account, is a story of migration. Traditionally, it begins in Scandinavia, moves to the southern shores of the Baltic around the mouth of the Vistula river, and then onwards to the Black Sea. Depending upon what study one reads, one can find it stated that written sources, archaeology, and linguistic evidence all demonstrate that just such a migration took place, if not out of Scandinavia then at least out of Poland. In fact, there is just a single source for this extended story of Gothic migration, the Getica of Jordanes... It is only the text of Jordanes that leads scholars to privilege the Wielbark connection... The Gotones mentioned in Tacitus, Germania 44.1 and located somewhere in what is now modern Poland would not be regarded as Goths if Jordanes’ migration stories did not exist."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
pp. 43, 67, 212
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Kulikowski
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Michael Kulikowski
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Michael Kulikowski →
Related Quotes
"[T]he history of the barbarians, specifically the Goths, can be understood entirely as a response to Roman imperialism."
"Certainly, in time, after being told repeatedly that they were in fact Goths... was [there] no question in anyone’s m…"
"The only recent treatment of Gothic history to dissent from the Vienna school and its focus on aristocratic tradition…"
"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."
"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"
"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"
"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"
"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"
"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"
"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"