Yordanes (bahasa Latin:Iordanes),[1] juga ditulis Yordanis atau, secara kurang umum, Yornandes,[2] adalah seorang birokrat Romawi abad ke-6,[3] yang menuliskan sejarah pada kehidupan selanjutnya.
Meskipun ia juga menulis Romana tentang sejarah Roma, karya paling terkenalnya adalah Getica, yang ditulis di Konstantinopel[4] sekitar 551 M.[5] Karya tersebut merupakan satu-satunya karya zaman kuno yang masih ada yang menyebutkan sejarah awal bangsa Goth.
According to Schanz-Hosius (Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, 4, vol. 2 (1920), pp. 115, 118) the best MSS of his work present his name as Jordanes, as does the 'Geographus Ravennas'. Jordanis is a 'vulgar' form that is also used, while Jornandes only appears in lesser MSS. The form Jornandes, however, was often used in older publications.
"If Jordanes was a bishop (as is frequently assumed) and if he lived in Italy (also frequently assumed), those elements of his background have left no trace in his two histories" (Brian Croke (1987), "Cassiodorus and the Getica of Jordanes", Classical Philology, 82: 119 (117–134)., doi:10.1086/367034
Ia menyebutkan plat besar 542 dibuat "sembilan tahun berikutnya" (Getica 104). Still, there are some modern scholars who opt for a later date, see Peter Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489, Oxford 1991, pp. 47-49 (year 552), Walter Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History, Princeton 1988, p. 98 (year 554).
Mierow, Charles Christopher, The Gothic History of Jordanes: In English with an Introduction and a Commentary, 1915. Reprinted 2006. Evolution Publishing, ISBN 978-1-889758-77-0.
Carlo Troya (1842). Storia d'Italia del medio-evo (dalam bahasa Italia). Tip. del Tasso stamp. reale. hlm.1331–. Diakses tanggal 5 April 2013.
Kulikowski, Michael, Rome’s Gothic Wars, p.130.
Arne Søby Christensen, Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths. Studies in a Migration Myth, 2002, ISBN 978-87-7289-710-3
Kai Brodersen, Könige im Karpatenbogen: Zur historischen Bedeutung von Jordanes' Herrscherliste. In: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde 36 (2013) pp.129–146 (ISSN 0344-3418)