Jordanes
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Historian and writer
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Why Is Jordanes Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jordanes , also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat widely believed to be of Gothic descent who became a historian later in life. Late in life he wrote two works, one on Roman history and the other on the Goths . The latter, along with Isidore of Seville's Historia Gothorum, is one of only two extant ancient works dealing with the early history of the Goths.
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