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5582 |
| Text |
Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680) Anonymous - Other |
| Quotation |
Est insula qui dicitur Scadanan, quod interpretatur excidia, in partibus aquilonis, ubi multae gentes habitant; inter quos erat gens parva quae Winnilis vocabatur. |
| Translation |
There is an island that is called Scadanan, which is interpreted “destruction”, in the regions of the north, where many people dwell. Among these there was a small people that was called the Winnili.
(W.D. Foukes, trans., E. Peters, ed., Origo gentis langobardorum (1974), pp. 315-16) |
| Summary |
The Origo opens by placing the mythic origins of a gens [people] called the Winnili in the distant, northern island of “Scadanan”, and gives a translation of the islands name as meaning “destruction”. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), p. 1 |
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