Jordanes claimed that, prior to the Goths' conversion to Christianity in the fourth century, their religion included the "veneration of heroic ancestors" and the "worship of a god of war" whom the ...

The use of "barbarian" soldiers is nothing new, but how do Game of Thrones' Wildlings differ from the Huns, Goths ... the later Roman empire of the fourth century CE. Just as Sam’s father ...

Rome itself was overrun with Goths long before Alaric arrived. By the late fourth century 30,000 lived in the capital, often as slaves. Snatched by traders, Gothic children spent their childhoods ...