Gothiscandza

As soon as they had set foot in the land, they named the area Gothiscandza.

Norse mythology presents at least two traditions that may be connected to Gothiscandza.

He was the son of Gadareiks and the fifth generation since Berig settled with his people in Gothiscandza.

The Goths move from Gothiscandza to Ukraine, giving birth to the Chernyakhov culture.

Filimer decided that everyone was to leave Gothiscandza and move to a new region named Oium (Scythia).

The Goths settle in northern Poland, which they called Gothiscandza, and shape the Wielbark culture.

The Gothiscandza theme was revived in German scholarship by Gustav Kossinna.

He described the area to set the stage for his treatment of the Goths' migration to Gothiscandza, the island in front of the Vistula river.

When the bird was killed on one of these trips, Dag invaded Reidgotaland (considering the date and location, apparently Gothiscandza), in order to avenge it.

The Roman historian Jordanes refers to an Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in Scandza, as part of his description of Gothiscandza.

According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin).

The Wielbark culture in the past has been associated with Jordanes' account of the Goths leaving Scandza (Scandinavia) and their settlement in Gothiscandza.

One interpretation of Gothiscandza is that is a Latinised form of the Gothic gutisk-an[d]ja, "Gothic end (or frontier)", since the Goths' territory extended to here.

Oium or Aujum was a name for an area in Scythia, where the Goths under their king Filimer settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551.

Although the exact location of Gothiscandza is unclear, Jordanes tells us that one shipload "dwelled in the province of Spesis on an island surrounded by the shallow waters of the Vistula."

According to a tale related by Jordanes, Gothiscandza was the first settlement of the Goths after their migration from Scandinavia (Scandza) during the first half of the 1st century CE.