Captive Goths. From sculptures on a column erected
in Constantinople about 400 A.D. The Goths were tall and athletic, with
fair complexions, blue eyes, and yellow hair, more like the
Scandinavians than any other modern people (they originally came from
Scandinavia, before traveling southward through Europe and splitting
into Ostrogoths [Eastern Goths] and Visigoths [Western Goths]). The men
wore long beards.
Their dress consisted of a short tunic with girdle,
wide turned-down collar, and short sleeves; an inner garment to the
knees; and trousers sometimes reaching to the ankle. These garments
were often referred to as distinguishing the Goths from the bare-legged
Romans.
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