Vinoviloth are one of the tribes inScandza (Scandinavia) mentioned byJordanes inDe origine actibusque Getarum in the 6th century CE.[1] It has been suggested that they would have been the same as theWinnili.[2] SometimesVingulmark is also mentioned. Jordanes writes:
And there are beyond these the Ostrogoths, Raumarici, Aeragnaricii, and the most gentle Finns, milder than all the inhabitants of Scandza. Like them are the Vinovilith [sic] also.[1]
BesidesDe origine, the Vinoviloth are not mentioned anywhere else.
Alfred Anscombe proposes that the Vinoviloth wereGoths settled in Britain atVinovia. These would be the Goths mentioned byAsser as ancestors ofAlfred the Great. The second element of their name would be related toOld Englishloða, cloak, which Anscombe sees as the second element in the nameLancelot. These names, in his view, have a parallel development because Lancelot can be associated withBinchester (Vinovia).[3][4]
