- jæts/ GHEETS, ****-əts, YATS; Old English: gēatas [ˈjæɑtɑs]; Old Norse:
gautar [
ˈɡɑu̯tɑr]; Swedish: götar [ˈjø̂ːtar]),
sometimes called Goths, were a large...
- Götaland once
consisted of
petty kingdoms, and
their inhabitants were
called Gautar in Old Norse. However, the term
mainly referred to the po****tion of modern...
-
verses frame peoples and
their rulers. It is
noteworthy that the
Geats (
Gautar) and
their king
Gizurr have been
inserted directly after the Huns, where...
- edn by
William A.
Craigie (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1957), s.v.
Gautar.
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia
Britannica article "Göta"...
-
generally accepted identification between the
names Götar (modern Swedish),
Gautar (Old Norse) and
Geatas (Old English),
which is
based both on tradition,...
- the
region of south-central
Sweden called Götaland (named
after the ON
Gautar, OE Gēatas), from
which areas they are ****umed to have
migrated originally...
- Scandinavia", and
comments that the
Geats of the poem may
correspond with the
Gautar (of
modern Götaland); or
perhaps the
legendary Getae. 19th-century archaeological...
-
gautar, Old English: Gēatas
There are
several arguments that
connect the
Geats and the Goths, and some of them are
linguistic ones. The Geatas/
gautar...
- Reamas, for the
correspondence between Reamas and
Raumar compare Geatas and
Gautar).
Snorri Sturluson relates in his
Heimskringla that it was
ruled by the...
-
compound of
roots meaning "strength" (cf. OHG magan) and
Geats (cf. ON
Gautar).
Latinizations include Megingaudus, Megimgausus, Maingaudus, Maingauldus...
