"There the Hister is called the Danube, a river rising from the apex of mount Adnoa, increasing profusely in a large number of streams and passing, tempestuous, from south to east and separating Germania from Scythia until it is taken back into the Black Sea.
Thus, spread over the plentiful space from the Danube to the neighborhood of the scythian Black Sea, do there inhabit fierce and barbarous nations, which are said to have burst forth in manifold variety like a swarm of bees from a honeycomb or a sword from a sheath, as is the barbarian custom, from the island of Scania, surrounded in different directions by the ocean. For indeed there is there a tract for the very many people of Alania, and the extremely well-supplied region of Dacia, and the very extensive passage of Greece. Dacia is the middle-most of these. Protected by very high alps in the manner of a crown and after the fashion of a city. With Mars' forewarning, raging warlike peoples inhabit those tortuous bends of extensive size, namely the Getae,"

Gesta Normannorum
Dudo of St. Quentin 11th C. A.D.

There is a lot of contraversy about this text. What did Dudo mean by Dacia? Did he mean Danemark or did he mean the modern teritory of Romania? In the middle ages latin scolars did sometimes refer to Danemark as Dacia. However, I personally think that it is quite clear from the above text that Dudo meant the geographic teritory of Romania. The original copy of the Gesta Normannorum still survives at the library of Berlin and is edited by Felice Lifshitz. I think this particular work provides ample evidence that the Dacians survived well past the roman "conquest" of Dacia!

Yours truly,

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