Gottland

See Gothland and Gotland. Gottschalk (got'shälk), Latinized Gotescalcus (gō-tes-kal'kus). Died about 868. A German theologian. He was sent as a child to the convent of Fulda, and subsequently entered the Benedictine convent Gothland (goth'land), Sw. Gotland, or Gott- Gottorp, or Holstein-Gottorp. See Oldenburg , land (gōt'länd), or Götaland (ye'tä-länd). His- House of. torically, the southern division of Sweden, com- prising the modern provinces (laen) Malmöhus, Kris tians tad, Blekinge, Kronoberg, Jönkö- ping, Kalmar, Östergötland, Hall and, Gothen- burg and Bohus, Elfsborg, and Skaraborg, and the islands Gotland and Öland. This and the land of the Swedes proper grew into the kingdom of Sweden during the middle part of the middle ages. Goth of red. See Godefroy . Goths (goths). [See first quotation below.] An ancient Teutonic race which was established in the regions of the lower Danube in the 3d century. A probable hypothesis identifies them with the Gotones or Gutones who dwelt near the Baltic; but there is no reason to believe in their relationship with the Getæ, and no proof of their Scand in avian origin. They made in the 3d and 4th centuries, and gradually accepted the many inroads into different parts of the Roman Empire Arian form of Christianity. The two great historical di. visions were the Visigoths (West Goths, the Greutungi) and the Ostrogoths (East Goths, the Thervingi). A body of Visigoths settled in the province of Mœsia (the present Servia and Bulgaria), and were hence called Me so goths; and their apostle Wulfila (Ulfilas) translated the Scriptures archy about 418, which existed in southern France until