title: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
author: Jordanes
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  # The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jordanes, Translated by Charles C. Mierow
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, SuperCrispy, David King, and the
  
  
  Online Distributed Proofreading Team
  
  
  Transcriber's Note:
  
  
  The numbers in the right margin of the text are from the original
  
  
  book; although nothing in the book says so, it appears that they might
  
  
  be page numbers from the manuscript of which this is a translation.
  
  
  They are preserved in this transcription in the hope that they are
  
  
  indeed page numbers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE ORIGIN AND DEEDS OF THE GOTHS
  
  
  by
  
  
  JORDANES
  
  
  in English Version
  
  
  Part of a Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Princeton University
  
  
  for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
  
  
  by CHARLES C. MIEROW
  
  
  Princeton
  
  
  1908
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  NOTE
  
  
  For the first time the story of the Goths recorded in