- The
Swedes (Swedish:
svear; Old Norse: svíar;
probably from the PIE
reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own [tribesmen/kinsmen]"; Old English: Swēon)...
- times,
emerging into
history as the
Geats (Swedish: Götar) and
Swedes (
Svear) and
constituting the sea
peoples known as the Nor****. A
unified Swedish...
-
mention two main
peoples or
tribes in
modern Sweden: the
Svear (Swedes) and Götar (Geats); the
Svear are
mentioned in more
foreign sources than the Götar...
-
those belonging to the
Swedish tribe, who are
called svear in Swedish. As
early as the 9th century,
svear had been vague, both
referring to the
Swedish tribe...
-
separated Svealand from Götaland. Historically, its
inhabitants were
called Svear, from
which is
derived the
English 'Swedes'.
Svealand consists of the capital...
- in what is now
southern and
western Sweden and
southeastern Norway, the
Svear in the
region around Mälaren as well as a
large portion of the
present day...
- Svea is a
Swedish female name
derived from the
tribe called "
Svear" or "Swedes," who came to
conquer the land
which is today's Sweden. The name was very...
-
titles of the
kings of
Sweden (three kingdoms: King of the
Svear, Götar and Vends;
Svears, Göters och
Venders konung)
means Finland, the form presumably...
- Beli Skáldskaparmál (14) Blótgoð svía
Blotgod svia
Sacrificial god of the
Svear Ögmundar þáttr
dytts Fégjafa ****jafa God of Wealth-Gifts Skáldskaparmál...
- "Contemporaries
distinguished four main
groups of Scandinavians: Danes, Götar,
Svear and
Norwegians or
Northmen (a name that
foreigners sometimes used to describe...
