- forms. The name
became part of a compound,
which in Old West
Norse was
Svíþjóð ("the
Svear people'", in Old East
Norse Sweþiuð and in Old
English Sweoðeod...
- only
referred to Svealand.
Other forms are Sweoðeod (Old Norse/Icelandic
Svíþjóð), and Sweorice. As the
domains of the
Swedish kings grew, the name Svealand...
-
described as the
border between Sweden and
Ostrogothia (...Kolmerkr, er
skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland...), and in
Hervarar saga, King
Ingold I
rides to Sweden...
- The
statement of the
Hervarar saga that
Stenkil was
originally Jarl in
Svíþjóð (in the
first hand, the
provinces around Lake Mälaren)
nevertheless calls...
-
eponymous ancestor of the Geats, and Goths, a son of Oðinn as King of
Sviþjoð.
Scholars have
proposed theories about the
implications of the goddess...
- Norse: [ˈɡylve]), Gylfe, Gylvi, or
Gylve was the
earliest recorded king of
Sviþjoð, Sweden, in Scandinavia. He is
known by the name
Gangleri when appearing...
- from Östergötland and
where Bråviken is located: ..Kolmerkr, er
skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland ... sem
heitir Brávík. In the
legend of Blenda, the...
-
visited the
country in 1219,
explained in the
Heimskringla (1225): In
Svithjod it was the old custom, as long as
heathenism prevailed, that the chief...
-
visited the
country in 1219,
explained in the
Heimskringla (1225): In
Svithjod it was the old custom, as long as
heathenism prevailed, that the chief...
-
visited the
country in 1219,
explained in the
Heimskringla (1225): In
Svithjod it was the old custom, as long as
heathenism prevailed, that the chief...
