Cimorene

I'm glad you found our discussions really fun! So did I, and I wish I had more time to engage! They reminded me of the 18th century history discussions I've been having (here and here) with a few friends for the last five years. You would fit right in!

in these genres events basically take place in a mythical/legendary Heroic Past.

For anyone reading this who missed my original comment, I linked to an online thesis that explores this in some depth.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the Goths converted to Christianity in the late 4th century AD and were one of the first germanic peoples to do so.

Can confirm; Bishop Wulfila's translation of the Bible into Gothic is the only reason we have a reasonably sized corpus of this language. (I studied Gothic back in the day

Totally unrelated but sparked in my memory by the discussion of Goths: have you read Mary Gentle's Ash?