The Vernacular Scriptures

M. J. Hunter; Geoffrey Sheperd; Henry Hargreaves; W. B.  Lockwood; C. A. Robson; Kenelm Foster; Margherita Morreale

doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521042550.010

IX - The Vernacular Scriptures

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008

Kenelm Foster and

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Geoffrey Sheperd: Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Henry Hargreaves: Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
W. B. Lockwood: Affiliation:
University of Reading
C. A. Robson: Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Kenelm Foster: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Margherita Morreale: Affiliation:
University of Bari

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THE GOTHIC BIBLE

One of the fascinations of the study of the Gothic bible is that it is almost the only literary monument of a race which played so great a part in laying the foundations on which modern Europe eventually arose.

The historian Jordanes relates a popular tradition of about the middle of the sixth century according to which the Goths, leaving Scandza, i.e. the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, with a king at their head, arrived by sea at the Vistula delta. One of their branches, the Gepidae who established themselves there a little later, gave the name of Gepidoios to the islands situated at the river mouth. The Goths conquered and dispersed the inhabitants of the coast and also subdued the Vandals who were already established there; and according to Tacitus (Germania 43) and Ptolemy (Geographia 3. 5.20), they remained on the lower Vistula until the middle of the second century A.D.

A new migration took the Goths by stages across the Pripet marshes towards the steppes of the Ukraine and as far as the Black Sea, where their presence is noted in 238. They are then found in Moesia and in Thrace, in contact, and often at war, with the Romans. Finally, certain Goths established themselves within the borders of the empire, north of the Danube and in Dacia (257), while others became mercenaries in the Roman army.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521042550.010 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 1969

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