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    Swedes (tribe) (redirect from Svear)
    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)...
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    000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats (Swedish: Götar) and Swedes (Svear), which together constituted the sea-faring peoples known as the Norsemen...
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    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...
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    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...
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    separated Svealand from Götaland. Historically, its inhabitants were called Svear, from which is derived the English 'Swedes'. Svealand consists of the capital...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Beli Skáldskaparmál (14) Blótgoð svía Blotgod svia Sacrificial god of the Svear Ögmundar þáttr dytts Fégjafa Fegjafa God of Wealth-Gifts Skáldskaparmál...
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    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...
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  • "Contemporaries distinguished four main groups of Scandinavians: Danes, Götar, Svear and Norwegians or Northmen (a name that foreigners sometimes used to describe...
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  • ("Supersymmetry") The Shadow-Men ("Get It Done") Spanky ("Conviction") Svear Priestesses ("Soulless") Thelonious ("I, Robot... You, Jane") Vaughne and...
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    took part in a horse sacrifice and ate horsemeat when becoming king of the Svear according to Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The U-version of this saga further...
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    1st and 2nd century in the Rhineland between Aachen and Jülich Swedes, Svear Svea North Germanic tribe Svealand in the region of the Mälaren river valley...
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    Wends (in Latin translation: kings of Suiones, Goths and Vandals) (Swedish: Svears, Götes och Wendes Konung). After the Danish monarch Queen Margrethe II chose...
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  • Queen consort of Sweden. However, Magnus' rule was not accepted by the Svear, another tribe to the north of the Geats, who vetoed him and elected Ragnvald...
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  • Sickness", when he stayed on the island of Our Ground, together with Darek de Svear and his sister Lehla, because he was too old to travel any further. Alinoë:...
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    German origin. In Swedish, the term is svensk, which is from the name of svear (or Swedes), the people who inhabited Svealand in eastern central Sweden...
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  • PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions Gotland the Pearl of the Baltic Sea, home of the Varangians pages 1-166, pp 104-108 Origin Svear...
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    network. During the first millennium, Täby was part of the lands of the Svear, known as Svitjod. Remains from this period can be found in more than 37...
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  • DEI GRATIA SVEC GOTH VANDAL REX (Karl XI, with God's grace, King of the Svears, Goths and Vandals), the reverse depicting Ulrika Eleonora with the inscription...
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  • side of the mountains and continuing north, was Sweoland, the "land of the Svear", or Swedes. To the north of the Swedes was Cwenaland, the "land of the...
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  • Livadić", Samobor Secondary School Dugo Selo, Dugo Selo Secondary School "Ivan Švear" Ivanić Grad, Ivanić Grad Secondary School Jastrebarsko, Jastrebarsko Vocational...
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    (OŠ Stjepana Basaričeka and OŠ Đure Deželića) and a high school (SŠ Ivan Švear) in Ivanić-Grad. OŠ Đure Deželića has the status of an international eco-school...
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  • Gamla Uppsala according to Heimskringla. 98 – Oldest known reference to the Svear is made by Tacitus. 550–625 – Gamla Uppsala archaeological area. 984 – Battle...
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    pp. 110–134. Translated in Stjerna 1912, ch. 5 Stjerna, Knut (1905). "Svear och Götar under folkvandringstiden" [The Swedes and the Getes during the...
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    Latin Vitae open with an episode in which envoys are sent by a king of the Svear (or Götar) called Olavus to a King of England named 'Mildred', entreating...
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