Gothic people of the plains north of the Lower Danube and west of the Dniester, first securely attested BY NAME in a Latin panegyric to Emperor Maximian delivered around 291 (possibly 292) — the earliest document to distinguish Gothic sub-groups by name. Associated with the Chernyakhov archaeological culture; ancestral to the Visigoths.
Crossed the Lower Danube into the Roman Empire in 376 under Hunnic pressure, becoming one of the founding groups of the Visigoths.
Standard survey of Gothic ethnogenesis and the Thervingi/Greuthungi split.
Directly addresses the historicity and dating of the Thervingi/Greuthungi names, including the c.291 panegyric attestation used for this record's start year.