11-19-2009, 08:42 AM
A curious fact: Russian archaeologists have recently discovered a tomb of the 4-th century high-ranked Gothic warrior near Samara (a city in middle Volga area) . So this confirms Iordanes’s information that Merens and Mordens tribes were subjected to Hermanarichus (Mordens, as most researchers think, are ancestors of modern Mordva – a Finno-Ugrian people which lives not far from Samara area).
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