Norse and later Scandinavian verbs meaning "to give birth". On this account, Icelandic linguist Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon suggested that the Gothic name may have referred to those "born and bred" in the north. As the word Goth is closely related to the Proto-Germanic verb "to pour", Anders Kaliff has favoured the idea that the Gothic name may mean "the people living where the river has their outlet" or "the people who are connected by the rivers and the sea". Jordanes writes in Getica that the ancestor of the Goths was named Gapt (Proto-Germanic: *Gaut). In Scandinavia, Gaut was considered to be a manifestation of the Germanic god Odin, and the Geats derived their ethnonym from this name. The Geats and royal Lombards and Anglo-Saxons claimed descent from Gaut. Wolfram notes that the Gothic name may thus mean "sons of Gaut". Regardless of the meaning of the Gothic name, Herwig Wolfram writes that it is certain that "the tribal name Goths means the same as Gauts". According to Wolfram, this is of bigger importance than its actual meaning. Elias Wessén writes that it is impossible to separate the words Gutar, Götar, Goths, *Gutans and Gauti from each other; they all mean the same. Attestations The name of the Goths is generally believed to have been first attested by Greco-Roman writes in the 1st century AD in the form Gutones. This name was applied to peoples located near the lower Vistula. Herwig Wolfram suggests that Gutones may have meant "young" Goths or "great" Goths. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions a people called the Butones (), who came under the domination of the Marcomannic king Maroboduus. Most scholars believe this name should be corrected to Gutones (Greek: Γούτωνας). Thorsten Andersson, Peter Heather and Wolfram considers Strabo as the first writer to have mentioned the Gothic name. Decades after Strabo, in his Natural History, Pliny the Elder mentions the Gutones as one of the peoples of Germania. In an earlier chapter, Pliny writes that the 4th century BC traveler Pytheas encountered a people called the Guiones in Germania. This name is often corrected to Gutones, but several other emendations have been proposed for the text of Pliny. In the work Germania, published some years after Pliny, Tacitus mentions the Gotones/Gothones as one of the Germani. In a later work, The Annals, Tacitus again mentions the Gotones. The name Gotones/Gothones mentioned by Tacitus is generally