Vinoviloth are one of the tribes in '' Scandza'' (Scandinavia) mentioned by Jordanes in '' De origine actibusque Getarum'' in the 6th century CE.''De origine actibusque Getarum''
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by C. C. Mierow. It has been suggested that they would have been the same as the Winnili. Sometimes Vingulmark 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 also.

Besides ''De origine'', the Vinoviloth are not mentioned anywhere else. Alfred Anscombe proposes that the Vinoviloth were Goths settled in Britain at

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. These would be the Goths mentioned by Asser as ancestors of

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. The second element of their name would be related to

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''loða'', cloak, which Anscombe sees as the second element in the name

Lancelot Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants (such as early German ''Lanzelet'', early French ''Lanselos'', early Welsh ''Lanslod Lak'', Italian ''Lancillotto'', Spanish ''Lanzarote del Lago' ...

. These names, in his view, have a parallel development because Lancelot can be associated with

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(Vinovia).Alfred Anscombe (1913), "Sir Lancelot du Lake and Vinovia", ''The Celtic Review'' 9(33): 77–80. "It is with the etymon of Vinovia that I would identify the stem of the prototheme in ''Vinov-i-loth'' ... ndlocate the 'Goths and Jutes' at Binchester inovia"

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