The Geats is a website about the Land of Beowulf. Who are the Geats and Danes in Beowulf?
Old English: gatas [jts].They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes.The Western and Eastern lands of the Geats are also known as the Swedish provinces of Vstergtland.
The Goths were related to the Geats of Sweden.There have been attempts to separate the gatas in Beowulf from the people in mainland Sweden, but these have not received much support.
Although not identical, the etymology of the name Geat is similar to that of Goths and Gutar.The word "geutan" means "to pour" in the Proto-Germanic language.They are generally accepted by whom?The meaning is "they who pour their seed".See Goths Etymology for more information.The names could allude to the land where they were living, but this is not generally accepted to be the case, partly because that would mean that the names' similarity would be coincidental.[5]
There is a theory that the word Gautigoths means the Goths who live near the river Gaut.It may have been a conflation of the words Gauti and Goths.The earlier names Gtlven and Gautelfr were replaced by the name 'River of the Geats' in the 17th century.The meaning of "to pour" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "geutan", which means "flow, stream, waterfall".[5]
The Old Norse Gautar originally referred to the inhabitants of Vstergtland, or the western parts of today's Gtaland.[5]
Ptolemy refers to the Geats as Goutai in the 2nd century AD.Jordanes equates the Ostrogoths of Scandza with the Getae in the 6th century.The Gatas are known as Gautar by the Norse Sagas.10
One of the Geatish kings is referred to as "Rex Getarum" in Liber Monstrorum and in a copy of Historiae Francorum.The raid into Frisia is described in Beowulf.The Geats were described as "bold, and quick to engage in war" by Jordanes after the events of this epic.There is a citation needed.
Sweonas in Old English was the name of the political independent Svear before the consolidation of Sweden.The unification of the Geatish lands with the Swedes in the 10th century is a topic of much debate.There is a citation needed.
The only surviving traditions which deal with Swedish-Geatish wars are semi-legendary and based on the lack of early medieval sources.The actual story in Beowulf is that the Geatish king helps a Swede get the throne.Historians think that this realm could be the force behind the creation of the medieval kingdom of Sweden.There is a distinction between political history and the emergence of a common Swedish ethnicity.Swedish involvement in the Gothic wars in southern Europe, which brought a great deal of Roman gold to the people of Gtaland, has been explained as the reason for the Swedish invasion of Geatish lands.Traditions from the 4th century are said to be contained in the Hervarar saga.According to that work, when the Hunnish Horde invaded the land of the Goths, it was the Geatish king who answered his call, though there is no evidence of a successful invasion.[2]
Historians believe that the medieval kingdom of Sweden was created to oppose foreign forces in order to protect the inland Vstergtland.The integration of the Geats in the Swedish kingdom is thought to have taken place before the 9th century.The fact that some sources are silent about the Geats indicates that there was no independent kingdom in the 9th century.In Rimbert's account of the missionary work of Ansgar, the Swedish king is the only one in the region and he has close connections with both the Danes and the Franks.The oldest medieval Swedish sources present the Swedish kingdom as having legal differences between Swedes and Geats, for example in weights and marks.One of the kings who ruled by the title of Rex Gothorum as late as the 12th century went on to become the king of a united realm.
Snorri Sturluson wrote about battles between Norwegians and Geats.There were battles between the Geats and the Norwegian king during the 9th century, but without the help of the Swedish king.He wrote about the expedition into Gtaland, the first ruler of a unified Scandinavian county, and the battle against Jarl Ottar of stergtland.
The Geats were divided into several districts which had their own things.The Thing of all Geats was held in the vicinity of Skara in Vstergtland, which was the largest district.
The Geats used hrrad like the Norwegians and the Danes.The common term in the Swedish kingdom was the Geatish name.It is possible that this is related to the fact that several of the medieval Swedish kings resided in Gtaland.
The Swedish House of Muns became extinct in the 11th century due to the death of Emund the Old.The shaping of Sweden as a Christian kingdom was influenced by the influence of the Geats.There was a period of civil unrest between Christians and pagans after this election.The Swedish king fled to Vstergtland in favour of Blot-Sweyn because he was more in favor of paganism.He would rule until his death in 1100.
The Geats were treated the same as the Swedes.A situation where one of the participants had to be pictured in black was written about by Saxo.Magnus Nielsen was a bad person for Saxo.The Danes had no say in the election of the king, only the Swedes, according to the 12th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus.When the Westrogothic law was written in the 13th century, it reminded the Geats that they had to accept the election of the Swedes.The king was "taken" by the first thing similar to the customs in early medieval Norway where the king is chosen by acclamation.It is possible to become king in Sweden by defeating opponents in battle and not just by being elected.
Ragnvald Knaphvde was accepted as king by the Geats of Vstergtland in 1125 after riding with his retinue.He didn't want to demand hostages from the prominent clans of the Geats.He was killed near Falkping.
The Stone of Mora was supposed to be visited by twelve men from each province when a new king was elected.
The Geats' connection with the Goths made them important for Swedish national claims of greatness.They argued that since the Goths and the Geats were the same nation, the Swedes had defeated the Roman empire.The Swedish delegation argued with the Spanish about who among them were the true Goths in 1434, the earliest attestation of this claim.The Spaniards said it was better to be descended from the heroic Visigoths than from stay-at- homers.Gothicismus or Swedish Gticism was the name of the cultural movement that was not limited to Sweden.It's called geaticism.
After the Kalmar Union, the Swedes and the Geats seem to have begun to see themselves as one nation, which is reflected in the evolution of svensk into a common ethnonym.Those belonging to the Swedish tribe are referred to as svear in Swedish.As early as the 9th century, svear had been vague, both referring to the Swedish tribe and being a collective term including the Geats.The merging of the two nations took a long time.Svensk almost replaced svear as a name for the Swedish people in the early 20th century.[15]
The Swedish ancestors were often referred to as Geats because of their connection to the Goths.The vikings took over the role of heroic ancestors in the 19th century.
With the merger of the two nations, there is no longer any tangible identification in Gtaland with a Geatish identity, apart from the common tendency of people living in those areas to refer to themselves as vstgtar.When it was founded in 1621, the city of Gteborg was named after the fortress of the Geats.There is a citation needed.
The title of the Swedish king before 1973 was King of Sweden, the Geats/Goths and the Wends.The title "King of the Wends" was copied from the Danes title and used by the royalty.The Wends is a term used to describe people who lived in large areas of east Germany and Pomerania.There are two King of the Goths and the Wends in the encyclopedia.
The titles were changed in 1973, when the new king decided that his title should be King of Sweden.The king made the decision to remove the old title.The old title was "N.N."Vandalorum Rex, Suecorum, Gothorum, and Dei Gratia.
Goths and Gutar were originally Proto-Germanic.The meaning of the Proto-Germanic word "geutan" is "to pour".The root meaning is to pour and offer sacrifice.There were two derivations from the same Proto-Germanic ethnonym.[17]
There is a long-standing debate about whether the Goths were Geats.The Geats (Isl.) are clearly separate from Old English literary sources.Gautar is from the Goths.Gotar is an OEng.Jordanes wrote that the Goths came from the island of Scandza.There were three tribes called the Gautigoths on this island.The Ostrogoths.Vagoths and the Swedish province of stergtland.This means that the Geats were Goths.The Romans use the term Goth to describe tribes like the Tervingi and the Greuthungs, so it may be a good idea to call the Geats goths.
The stone circles, which are most common in Gtaland and Gotland, appeared in northern Poland in the 1st century AD, suggesting an influx of Scandinavians.There is a sudden disappearance of villages in stergtland in Sweden.The groups were associated with the earlier Getae of Dacia in the 4th century, but this is now disputed.
Pontus Fahlbeck proposed a hypothesis in 1884 that the Jutes were also Geats.The hypothesis says that the Geats lived in southern Sweden and in Jutland, where Beowulf lived.
The identification of Old English Gatas as the same ethnonym as Swedish gtar and Old Norse gautar is based on the observation that the monophthong of modern Swedish and the Au diphthong are similar.
Old English and modern Swedish Gtar are the same.The balance seems to be tipped by this correspondence.The historical position of the Geats between the Danes/Daci and the Swedes is based on the fact that the Gatas are in close contact with the Sweon.The story of Beowulf, who leaves Geatland and arrives at the Danish court after a naval voyage, where he kills a beast, is similar to that of Hrlf Kraki's saga.Bdvar Bjarki leaves Gautland and arrives at the Danish court after killing a beast that has been tormenting the Danes for two years.