Mierow 1915, Preface [quote]: Jordanes writes: "But above every burden is the fact that I have no access to his books that I may follow his thought. Still - and let me lie not - I have in times past read the books a second time by his steward's loan for a three days' reading. The words I recall not, but the sense and the deeds related I think I retain entire.". Mierow, Charles Christopher, ed. (1915), The Gothic History of Jordanes, Princeton, Univ. Press