Swedes (tribe), the Glossary
The Swedes (svear; Old Norse: svíar; probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own ";Bandle, Oskar. 2002. The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. 2002. P.391 Swēon) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes.[1]
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122 relations: Adam of Bremen, Alfred the Great, Annales Bertiniani, Æsir, Öland, Beowulf, Blót, Blekinge, Bornholm, Bow (watercraft), Byzantine Empire, Carl L. Thunberg, Constantinople, Danes, Danes (tribe), Eadgils, East Middle Sweden, Epenthesis, Estonian language, Ethnicity, Faroese language, Finnish language, Francia, Freyr, Gamla Uppsala, Götaland, Geats, Germania (book), Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Getica, Gothic language, Goths, Gotland, Gutes, Heimskringla, Hilleviones, House of Munsö, Hungarians, Icelandic language, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Jakob Langebek, Jordanes, Jutland, Kattegat, Khagan, Kievan Rus', Kingdom of Sweden (800–1521), Kylver Stone, Latin, List of early Germanic peoples, ... Expand index (72 more) »
- North Germanic peoples
Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler.
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Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899.
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Annales Bertiniani
Annales Bertiniani (Annals of Saint Bertin) are late Carolingian, Frankish annals that were found in the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer, France, after which they are named.
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Æsir
Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism.
Öland
Öland (sometimes written Oland internationally; Oelandia) is the second-largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden.
Beowulf
Beowulf (Bēowulf) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
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Blót
Blót (Old Norse and Old English) or geblōt (Old English) are religious ceremonies in Germanic paganism that centred on the killing and offering of an animal to a particular being, typically followed by the communal cooking and eating of its meat.
Blekinge
Blekinge is one of the traditional Swedish provinces (landskap), situated in the southern coast of the geographic region of Götaland, in southern Sweden.
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Bornholm
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
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Bow (watercraft)
The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carl L. Thunberg
Carl L. Thunberg, FSAScot (born 25 October 1963) is a Swedish popular historian.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Danes
Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.
Danes (tribe)
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age. Swedes (tribe) and Danes (tribe) are early Germanic peoples and north Germanic peoples.
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Eadgils
Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus or Adhel was a semi-legendary king of Sweden, who is estimated to have lived during the 6th century.
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East Middle Sweden
East Middle Sweden (Östra Mellansverige) is a national area (riksområde) of Sweden.
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Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.
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Estonian language
Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
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Faroese language
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
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Freyr
Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest.
Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.
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Götaland
Götaland (also Gothia, Gothland, Gothenland or Gautland) is one of three lands of Sweden and comprises ten provinces.
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Geats
The Geats (gēatas; gautar; götar), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited italic ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. Swedes (tribe) and Geats are early Germanic peoples and north Germanic peoples.
Germania (book)
The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (De origine et situ Germanorum), is a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic peoples outside the Roman Empire.
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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum
(Medieval Latin for "Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, who made additions (scholia) to the text until his death (possibly 1081; before 1085).
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Getica
De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica, written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which is now lost.
Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths.
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Goths
The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. Swedes (tribe) and Goths are early Germanic peoples.
Gotland
Gotland (Gutland in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland, is Sweden's largest island.
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Gutes
The Gutes (Old West Norse: Gotar, Old Gutnish: Gutar) were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting the island of Gotland. Swedes (tribe) and Gutes are early Germanic peoples and north Germanic peoples.
Heimskringla
() is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.
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Hilleviones
The Hilleviones were a Germanic people occupying an island called Scatinavia in the 1st century AD, according to the Roman geographer Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia (Book 4, Chapter 13 resp. 27), written circa 77 AD. Swedes (tribe) and Hilleviones are early Germanic peoples.
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House of Munsö
The House of Munsö, also called the House of Björn Ironside (Swedish), the House of Uppsala (Swedish) or simply the Old dynasty (Swedish), is the earliest reliably attested royal dynasty of Sweden, ruling during the Viking Age.
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Hungarians
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
The Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (IEW; "Indo-European Etymological Dictionary") was published in 1959 by the Austrian-German comparative linguist and Celtic languages expert Julius Pokorny.
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Jakob Langebek
Jakob Langebek (23 January 1710 - 16 August 1775) was a Danish historian, linguist, lexicographer, and archivist.
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Jordanes
Jordanes (Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, widely believed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life.
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Jutland
Jutland (Jylland, Jyske Halvø or Cimbriske Halvø; Jütland, Kimbrische Halbinsel or Jütische Halbinsel) is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).
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Kattegat
The Kattegat (Kattegatt) is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Skåne in Sweden in the east.
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Khagan
Khagan or Qaghan (Mongolian:; or Khagan; 𐰴𐰍𐰣) is a title of imperial rank in Turkic, Mongolic, and some other languages, equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate (empire).
Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.
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Kingdom of Sweden (800–1521)
Swedish pre-history ends around 800 AD, when the Viking Age begins and written sources are available.
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Kylver Stone
The Kylver stone, listed in the Rundata catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 AD.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
List of early Germanic peoples
The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations in ancient times. Swedes (tribe) and list of early Germanic peoples are early Germanic peoples.
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List of legendary kings of Sweden
The legendary kings of Sweden according to legends were rulers of Sweden and the Swedes who preceded Eric the Victorious and Olof Skötkonung, the earliest reliably attested Swedish kings.
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Lolland
Lolland (formerly spelled Laaland, literally "low land") is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of.
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Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. Swedes (tribe) and Lombards are early Germanic peoples.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme; Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
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Mainz
Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.
Mälaren Valley
The Mälaren Valley (Mälardalen), occasionally referred to as Stockholm-Mälaren Region (Stockholm-mälarregionen), is the easternmost part of Svealand, the catchment area of Lake Mälaren and the surrounding municipalities.
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Möre
Möre is one of the original small lands of Småland, a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Mother Svea
Mother Svea or Mother Swea (Swedish: Moder Svea) is the female personification of Sweden and a patriotic emblem of the Swedish nation.
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Närke
Närke is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Svealand in south central Sweden.
Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
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Nordisk familjebok
Nordisk familjebok ('Nordic Family Book') is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University.
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Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
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Norsemen
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. Swedes (tribe) and Norsemen are north Germanic peoples.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. Swedes (tribe) and North Germanic languages are north Germanic peoples.
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North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula. Swedes (tribe) and North Germanic peoples are early Germanic peoples.
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Norwegians
Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population. Swedes (tribe) and Norwegians are north Germanic peoples.
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Ohthere
Ohthere, also Ohtere (Old Norse: Óttarr vendilkráka, Vendelcrow; in modern Swedish Ottar Vendelkråka), was a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the house of Scylfings, who is said to have lived during the Germanic Heroic Age, possibly during the early 6th century (fl. c. 515 – c.
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Ohthere of Hålogaland
Ohthere of Hålogaland (Ottar fra Hålogaland) was a Viking Age Norwegian seafarer known only from an account of his travels that he gave to King Alfred (r. 871–99) of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in about 890 AD.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
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Onela
Onela was, according to Beowulf, a Swedish king, the son of Ongentheow and the brother of Ohthere.
Ongentheow
Ongentheow (Old English: Ongenþeow, Ongenþio, Ongendþeow; Old Norse: Angantýr) (died ca. 515) was the name of a semi-legendary Swedish king of the house of Scylfings, who appears in Old English sources.
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Orosius
Paulus Orosius (born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Proto-Norse language
Proto-Norse (also called Ancient Nordic, Ancient Scandinavian, Ancient Norse, Primitive Norse, Proto-Nordic, Proto-Scandinavian and Proto-North Germanic) was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic in the first centuries CE.
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Realm
A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules.
Reflexive pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.
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Reich
Reich is a German noun whose meaning is analogous to the English word "realm"; this is not to be confused with the German adjective "reich" which means "rich".
Roden, Sweden
Roden (roðer, "rowing") is the old designation of the coastal areas of Svealand (the yellow areas in the map), that in wartime would man and equip the ships that sailed out in ledung.
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Roslagen
Roslagen is the name of the coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden, which also constitutes the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago.
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Runestone
A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock.
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Rus' people
The Rus, also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe.
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Saga
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Södermanland
Södermanland, locally Sörmland, sometimes referred to under its Latinized form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a historical province (or landskap) on the south eastern coast of Sweden.
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Södermanland runic inscription 140
Södermanland runic inscription 140 (Sö 140) is a Viking Age runestone inscribed in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Scandza
Scandza was described as a "great island" by Gothic-Byzantine historian Jordanes in his work Getica.
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Scania
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne, is the southernmost of the historical provinces (landskap) of Sweden.
Sceafa
Sceafa (Scēafa, also Scēaf, Scēf) was an ancient Lombardic king in English legend.
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (Old Norse:;; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic. Swedes (tribe) and Suebi are early Germanic peoples.
Svealand
Svealand, or Swealand, is the historical core region of Sweden.
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Swabia
Swabia; Schwaben, colloquially Schwabenland or Ländle; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Swedes
Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.
Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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Swedish–Geatish wars
The Swedish–Geatish wars refer to semi-legendary 6th-century battles between Swedes and Geats that are described in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf.
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Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.
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Thing (assembly)
A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by a lawspeaker.
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Thingmen
The Thingmen (Þingalið) was a unit in the service of the Kings of England during the period 1013–1051, financed by direct taxation which had its origins in the tribute known as Danegeld.
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Thuringii
The Thuringii, or Thuringians were a Germanic people who lived in the kingdom of the Thuringians that appeared during the late Migration Period south of the Harz Mountains of central Germania, a region still known today as Thuringia. Swedes (tribe) and Thuringii are early Germanic peoples.
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Trial by combat
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.
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Trial by ordeal
Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused (called a "proband") was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience.
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Ulfilas
Ulfilas (Greek: Ουλφίλας; – 383), known also as Wulfila(s) or Urphilas, was a 4th century Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent.
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Uppland
Uppland is a historical province or on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.
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Uppsala öd
Uppsala öd, Old Norse: Uppsala auðr or Uppsala øðr (Uppsala domains or wealth of Uppsala) was the name given to the collection of estates which was the property of the Swedish Crown in medieval Sweden.
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Varangian Guard
The Varangian Guard (translit-std) was an elite unit of the Byzantine army from the tenth to the fourteenth century who served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine emperors.
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Varangian runestones
The Varangian Runestones are runestones in Scandinavia that mention voyages to the East or the Eastern route, or to more specific eastern locations such as Garðaríki in Eastern Europe.
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Varangians
The Varangians"," Online Etymology Dictionary were Viking conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden.
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Västergötland
Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
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Västgötalagen
(or) or the Västgöta (Westrogothic) law is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws.
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Västmanland
Västmanland is a historical Swedish province, or landskap, in middle Sweden.
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Viking Age
The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
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Widsith
"Widsith" (Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", is an Old English poem of 143 lines.
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Wiglaf
Wiglaf (Proto-Norse: *Wīgalaibaz, meaning "battle remainder"; Wīġlāf) is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
Wulfstan of Hedeby
Wulfstan of Hedeby was a late ninth-century traveller and trader.
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Yngling
The Ynglings were a dynasty of kings, first in Sweden and later in Norway, primarily attested through the poem Ynglingatal.
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See also
North Germanic peoples
- Charudes
- Danes (tribe)
- Geats
- Gutes
- Icelanders
- Norsemen
- North Germanic languages
- North Germanic peoples
- Norwegians
- Sitones
- Swedes (tribe)
- Thelir
- Vagoth
- Vinoviloth
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedes_(tribe)
Also known as Suehans, Sueones, Suiones, Suioni, Suithiod, Svear, Svetjud, SvíÞjóð, Svíar, Svithiodh, Svitjod, Swea, Swea (people), Swedes (Germanic tribe), Sweodeod, Sweonas, Sweorice, Swithiod.
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