Note 521 — Chapter I · The Making of Russia
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Our authority here is Jornandes, more properly styled Jordanes, who lived at Byzantium under Justinian II. His work, De Gothorum Origine et Rebus Gestis, is to be found in Muratori’s Rerum Italicarum Scriptores ab Anno 500 ad 1500, 27 vols. folio.