Oium

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Oium was a name for Scythia, or a fertile part of it, roughly in modern Ukraine, where the Goths, under a legendary King Filimer, settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It is generally assumed that the story reproduced by Jordanes contains a historical core, although several scholars have suggested that parts of it are fictional.^[4]

^ Mierow 1908, chapter IV (25)
^ Green 1998, p. 167.
^ Merrills 2005, 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."
^ Günnewig 2003.

[Getica25-1] Mierow 1908, chapter IV (25)

[FOOTNOTEGreen1998167-2] Green 1998, p. 167.

[3] Merrills 2005, 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."

[FOOTNOTEGünnewig2003-4] Günnewig 2003.

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