... There were other Goths also, called the Lesser, a great people whose priest and primate was Vulfila, who is said to have taught them to write... (Origin and Deeds of the Goths, Jordanes-Mierow, 1908).

... With the exception of the meagre scraps of a calendar, and a few brief conveyances of land, or frabauhtabokos, executed during the reign of King Totila in 551, the writings of Vulfila, if we attribute to him the Skeireins, or Commentary on John, comprise all the records of Gothic speech which have come down to us... (The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Lowe, v.5, 1876)