The Burgundians are an East Germanic tribe which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians), and from there to mainland Europe.

In Porstein’s saga Víkingssonar (The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son), Veseti settled in an island or holm, which was called Borgund's holm, i.e.

Bornholm.

Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius uses the name Burgenda land.

The poet and early mythologist Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895), (Our Fathers' Godsaga) asserted from an early medieval source, Vita Sigismundi, that themselves retained oral traditions about their Scandinavian origin.