Scandinavia

=== Appearance in medieval Germanic languages ===
The Latin names in Pliny's text gave rise to different forms in medieval Germanic texts. In Jordanes' history of the [[Goths]] (AD 551), the form {{lang|la|[[Scandza]]}} is the name used for their original home, separated by sea from the land of Europe (chapter 1, 4).<ref>[[Jordanes]] (translated by [[Charles Christopher Mierow]]), [http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html ''The Origins and Deeds of the Goths''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424044148/http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html |date=24 April 2006 }}, 22 April 1997</ref><!---According to recently published notes by [[Jūrate Statkutė de Rosales]]{{Verify credibility|date=November 2010}}{{Lopsided|date=November 2010}}---><!---The arguments for or against various interpretations of Jordanes are better suited for the article about him/or about Getica. the various nationalistic and scholarly discussions about whether Jordanes referred to Lithuania, Sweden, Poland et cetera, as the true "home of the Goths" are too involved and wide-ranging to be relevant to this article. One such section (about a Baltic origin theory) has been removed. It is sufficient to state that the name appear in Jordanes, or this debate could easily swamp the article when all sides have their say.---> Where Jordanes meant to locate this quasi-legendary island is still a hotly debated issue, both in scholarly discussions and in the [[nationalism|nationalistic]] discourse of various European countries.<ref>Hoppenbrouwers, Peter (2005). ''Medieval Peoples Imagined''. Working Paper No. 3, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, {{ISSN|1871-1693}}, p. 8: "A second core area was the quasi-legendary 'Isle of Scanza', the vague indication of Scandinavia in classical ethnography, and a veritable 'hive of races and a womb of peoples' according to Jordanes' Gothic History. Not only the Goths were considered to have originated there, but also the Dacians/Danes, the Lombards, and the Burgundians—claims that are still subject to debate."</ref><ref>Goffart, Walter (2005), "Jordanes's Getica and the disputed authenticity of Gothic origins from Scandinavia". ''Speculum''. A Journal of Medieval Studies 80, 379–98</ref> The form {{lang|la|Scadinavia}} as the original home of the [[Lombards|Langobards]] appears in [[Paul the Deacon]]' ''Historia Langobardorum'',<ref>[[Paul the Deacon]], [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost08/PaulusDiaconus/pau_lan1.html Historia Langobardorum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923091528/http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost08/PaulusDiaconus/pau_lan1.html |date=23 September 2021 }}, ''Bibliotheca Augustana''</ref> but in other versions of ''Historia Langobardorum'' appear the forms {{lang|la|Scadan}}, {{lang|la|Scandanan}}, {{lang|la|Scadanan}} and {{lang|la|Scatenauge}}.<ref>[http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/001.php History of the Langobards], ''Northvegr Foundation'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406031959/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/001.php |date=6 April 2010 }}</ref> Frankish sources used {{lang|frk|Sconaowe}} and [[Æthelweard (historian)|Aethelweard]], an Anglo-Saxon historian, used {{lang|ang|Scani}}.<ref>{{cite book| author = Erik Björkman| title = Studien zur englischen Philologie| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wKUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA99| year = 1973| publisher = Max Niemeyer| isbn = 978-3-500-28470-5| page = 99| access-date = 23 April 2023| archive-date = 23 April 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230423131728/https://books.google.com/books?id=wKUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA99| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="North">{{cite book| author = Richard North| title = Heathen gods in Old English literature| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X_LKUIqNvPQC&pg=PA192| year = 1997| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-55183-0| page = 192| access-date = 23 April 2023| archive-date = 23 April 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230423131712/https://books.google.com/books?id=X_LKUIqNvPQC&pg=PA192| url-status = live}}</ref> In ''[[Beowulf]]'', the forms {{lang|ang|Scedenige}} and {{lang|ang|Scedeland}} are used while the [[Alfred the Great|Alfredian]] translation of [[Orosius]] and [[Wulfstan of Hedeby|Wulfstan]]'s travel accounts used the [[Old English]] {{lang|ang|Sconeg}}.<ref name="North" />