Based on accounts by Jordanes, Procopius, Paul the Deacon and others, linguistic evidence (see Gothic language), placename evidence, and on archaeological evidence it is assumed that the speakers of East Germanic languages migrated from Scandinavia to the area between the Oder and the Vistula rivers, ca 600 BC - ca 300 BC.
A connection has been posited between the Burgundians and the island of Bornholm in Denmark (Old Norse: Borgundarholm).
