Historian at Yale University
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Last updated Nov 7, 2026
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In 551 C.E., a Gothic historian named Jordanes wrote that his people sailed from a frozen island called Scandza and swept south to the Black Sea. For nearly 1,500 years, most historians treated that story as myth. Ancient DNA from skeletons across Europe now shows a large migration from Scandinavia into northern Poland around the time Gothic artifacts first appear there.
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