1 2 Green, Dennis Howard (1998). Language and History in the Early Germanic World. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521794234, p.167.
↑ Merrills, Andrew H. (2005). History and Geography in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University, ISBN 0521846013, p.120: "The term may, of course, have been a simple invention of Jordanes or Cassiodorus, intended to lend a witty verisimilitude to a knowingly derivative origin myth."
