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| - Geatas (but also often Goths, Gautar in Old Norse, Götar in Swedish) is the Old English spelling of the name of the Geats, a North Germanic tribe which were the inhabitants Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern Sweden. The name of the Geats lives on in the Swedish counties of Västergötland and Östergötland, the Western and Eastern lands of the Geats, as well as in many toponyms. The city Göteborg, known in English as Gothenburg, was named after the Geats (Geatsburg or fortress of the Geats), when it was founded in 1621.
- The earliest time the Geats were spoken of may kythe in Ptolemy (2nd hundredyear A.D.), where they are called Goutai. In the 6th hundredyear, they were called Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by Jordanes and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are spoken of as Gautar, and in Beowulf and Widsith as Geatas.
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| - The earliest time the Geats were spoken of may kythe in Ptolemy (2nd hundredyear A.D.), where they are called Goutai. In the 6th hundredyear, they were called Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by Jordanes and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are spoken of as Gautar, and in Beowulf and Widsith as Geatas. Beowulf and the Norse Sagas name sundry Geatish kings, but only Hygelac finds true knowledge in Liber Monstrorum where he is called Rex Getarum and in an eftwork of Historiae Francorum where he is called Rege Gotorum. These springheads tell of a Viking raid into Frishland, about 516, which is also spoken of in Beowulf. Some tenyears after the happening akin in this saga, Jordanes spake of the Geats as a thede which was bold and quick to betroth in war. Before the banding of Sweden, the Geats were mootishly standalone of the Swedes, whose old name was Sweonas in Old English. When written stems unwhelm (somewhere at the end of the 10th hundredyear), the Geatish lands are told of as a deal of the still very shaky Swedish kingdom, but the way of their banding with the Swedes is a very moot thing to talk about. Grounded on the lack of early middle-elthly stems, and the truth that the Geats were later a share of the kingdom of Sweden, folklorely writs believe a groundswellsome intaking by the Swedes, but the only outlasting folklore which deal with Swedish-Geatish wars are of half-folktalesome make and found in Beowulf. The Swedish inslaught of Geatish lands has been unravelled with Geatish entangling in the Gothish wars in southern Europe, which brought a great deal of Roman gold to Geatland, but also of course lessened their scoring(see Nordisk familjebok). The Hervarar saga is believed to inhold such folklore handed down from the 4th hundredyear. It tells that when the Hunnish Horde overran the land of the Goths and the Gothish king Angantyr hopelessly forsought to lead the gainstanding, it was the Geatish king Gizur who answered his call. In these times, some lorechildren have taken belief against such an inslaught, because, the foretelling in the ending of Beowulf standing out, there is little written or oldenlorely true knowledge. It should also be logged that the Geatish lands, above all Westgeatland, show much Danish swaying in the 10th hundredyear.
- Geatas (but also often Goths, Gautar in Old Norse, Götar in Swedish) is the Old English spelling of the name of the Geats, a North Germanic tribe which were the inhabitants Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern Sweden. The name of the Geats lives on in the Swedish counties of Västergötland and Östergötland, the Western and Eastern lands of the Geats, as well as in many toponyms. The city Göteborg, known in English as Gothenburg, was named after the Geats (Geatsburg or fortress of the Geats), when it was founded in 1621.
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