 The Scandza passage of Jordanes is subject to many different interpretations, and some historians have proposed that Jordanes made errors.For example, Theodor Mommsen believed Jordanes should have described the Scandinavian Rudolf as a Herul, and the historian Herwig Wolfram has described this Scandinavian Rudolf as a Gaut.Due to the similarity of the circumstances, it has been suggested that the various accounts describe one individual, although this remains uncertain.