Gothicism

This was a result of a resolute decades long effort from Swedish writers, scholars and historical revisionists alike dedicated towards proving that the Goths had originated from Götaland and wherefrom their name was etymologically derived.

This premise, however, has been heavily contested and met with scepticism by a number of eminent historians such as Carlo Troya who is esteemed as a leading figure on Italian history during the early middle ages.

During the 18th century, Swedish Gothicism had sobered somewhat, but it revived during the period of Romantic nationalism from c. 1800 onwards, with Erik Gustaf Geijer and Esaias Tegnér in the Geatish Society.

In Denmark, Romantic nationalism led writers such as Johannes Ewald, N. F. S. Grundtvig (whose translation of Beowulf into Danish was the first into a modern language) and Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger to take a renewed interest in Old Norse subjects.

In other parts of Europe, interest in Norse mythology, history and language was represented by the Englishmen Thomas Gray, John Keats and William Wordsworth, and the Germans Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.

Table of tribes originating from Scandinavia according to Johannes and Olaus Magnus , with references to [Jordanes, Paulus Diaconus , etc].
A 16th century perception of a Goth, illustrated in the manuscript "Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel". Painted by Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library . [ 1 ]
Olof Rudbeck , a 17th-century spokesman for Gothicismus.
Erik Gustaf Geijer was a member of the 19th-century Gothic League (or the Geatish Society ), which propagated the now-familiar image of the Viking as a heroic Norseman.