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The Gepids ((ラテン語:Gepidae, Gipedae)) were an East Germanic tribe. They were closely related to, or a subdivision of, the Goths. They are first recorded in 6th-century historiography as having been allied with the Goths in the invasion of Dacia in c. 260. In the 4th century, they were incorporated into the Hunnic Empire. Under their leader Ardaric, the Gepids united with other Germanic tribes and defeated the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454. The Gepids then founded a kingdom centered on Sirmium, known as ''Gepidia'',〔Jordanes, ''Getica'', (XII.74 ): ''Haec Gotia, quam Daciam appellavere maiores, quae nunc ut diximus Gepidia dicitur'' ("This Gothia, which our ancestors called Dacia, we now call Gepidia.").〕 which was defeated by the Lombards a century later. Remnants of the Gepids were conquered by the Avars later in the 6th century, and both Gepids and Avars were eventually conquered and assimilated by the Slavs in the late 6th and during the 7th century. Jordanes reports that their name is from ''gepanta'', an insult meaning "sluggish, stolid" (''pigra''). An Old English form of their name is recorded in ''Widsith'', as ', alongside the name of the Wends.〔Recorded in the dative plural, '; interpreted as "' or '". RG Latham, 'On the Gepidae', ''Transactions of the Philological Society'' (1857), 1–9. Latham also suggests Gapt, the variant given by Jordanes of Gaut, the eponymous ancestor of the Goths, as the eponymous ancestor of the Gepidae.〕 == Origins == The Gepids were the "most shadowy of all the major Germanic peoples of the migration period", according to historian Malcolm Todd. Neither Tacitus nor Ptolemy mentioned them in their detailed lists of the "barbarians", suggesting that the Gepids emerged only in the . The first sporadic references to them, which were recorded in the late , show that they lived north of the frontier of the Roman Empire. The 6th-century Byzantine writer, Procopius, listed the Gepids among the "Gothic nations", along with the Vandals, Visigoths and Goths proper, in his ''Wars of Justinian''. According to historian Walter Goffart, Jordanes' remark shows that Byzantine scholars had invented a concept of the "Gothic nations, sharing the same language, white bodies, blond hair, and Arian form of Christianity". All information of the Gepids' origins came from "malicious and convoluted Gothic legends", recorded in Jordanes' ''Getica'' after 550. According to Jordanes' narration the northern island of "Scandza", which is associated with Sweden by modern scholars, was the original homeland of the ancestors of the Goths and Gepids. They left Scandza in three boats under the leadership of Berig, the legendary Gothic King. Jordanes also writes that the Gepids' ancestors traveled in the last of the three ships, for which their fellows mocked them as ''gepanta'', or "slow and stolid".〔''The Gothic History of Jordanes'' (xvii:95), p. 78.〕 They settled along the northern shore of the Baltic Sea on an island at mouth of the Vistula River, called "Gepedoius", or the Gepids' fruitful meadows, by Jordanes. Modern historians debate whether the part of Jordanes' work which described the migration from Scandza was written at least partially on the basis of Gothic oral history or it was an "ahistorical fabrication". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gepids」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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