 The "Getica" sets off with a geography/ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza (16–24).He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in a distant past.In the pen of Jordanes, Herodotus's Getian demigod Zalmoxis becomes a king of the Goths (39).