Jordanes, fl. 6th cent., historian of the Ostrogoths, b. in the lower Danube region. His
History of the Goths, an abridgment of the lost work of
Cassiodorus, is the only extant source for Ostrogothic history and one of the few works written in Vulgar Latin.
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