Geats

Geats, Geatas, Gautar, Goths, Gotar, Gøtar, Götar were a North Teutonish folk which were the dwellers of Götaland ("Geatland") in new Sweden. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish shires of Västergötland ("Westgeatland") and Östergötland ("Eastgeatland"), as well as in many steadnames. The town Göteborg, known in English as Gothenbury, was named after the Geats (Geatsbury or Stronghold of the Geats), when it was founded in 1621.

Eretide
The earliest time the Geats were spoken of may appear 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.

Before the banding of Sweden, the Geats were mootishly standalone of the Swedes, whose old name was Svear (Sweon or Sweonas in OE). 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.

Beowulf and the Norse sagas name sundry Geatish kings, but only Hygelac finds knowledge backing up in Liber Monstrorum where he is told of as Rex Getarum and in a back-up writ of Historiae Francorum where he is called Rege Gotorum. These stems tell of a Viking onslaught into Frishland, about 516, which is also spoken of in Beowulf. Some tenyears after the happenings told of in this saga, Jordanes told of the Geats as a kithdom which was bold and quick to betroth in war.