Árheimar (Old Norse "river home") was a capital of the Goths, according to the Hervarar saga. The saga only states that it was located on the river Dnieper, which flows from Russia to the Black Sea.

Aujum was a name for an area in Scythia, where the Goths under their king Filimer settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551. Possibly a dative plural to the widespread Germanic words *aujō- or *auwō- and means "well-watered meadow" or "island".

Gothiscandza was the first settlement of the Goths after their migration from Scandinavia (Scandza) around 1490 B.C.  One interpretation of Gothiscandza is that is a Latinised form of the Gothic gutisk-an[d]ja, "Gothic end (or frontier)", since the Goths' territory extended to here. Another interpretation is that an[d]ja means "cape" so that the whole word means "gothic peninsula". It is also possible that the word is a product of conflation of the words gothic and Scandinavia. Herwig Wolfram mentions "Gothic coast" and "Gothic Scandia" but prefers the latter, thinking that the former is "linguistically questionable".