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.