The Thing of all Geats (Swedish: Alla götars ting) was the thing (general assembly) which was held from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages in Skara...
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eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms. The Swedish dialects spoken in the areas that used to be inhabited by Geats form a distinct group...
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use as the Disting for the great fair. Thing (assembly) Thing of all Geats, an equivalent assembly of the Geats that took place in Skara. Norse law Ynglinga...
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against the thing and gave in. The main things in Sweden were the Thing of all Swedes, the Thing of all Geats, and the Lionga thing. The island of Gotland...
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Skara (category Municipal seats of Västra Götaland County)
Skara was the location for the regional assembly, the Thing of all Geats. With the Christianization of Sweden, around 1000 AD, Skara became the seat for the...
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Olof Skötkonung (category Sons of kings)
Geats and east Geats. The legend of St. Sigfrid, known since the 13th century, relates that the still pagan Olof called in the English Archbishop of York...
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lawspeaker of Uppland and then by all his subordinate lawspeakers in the rest of the kingdom, one by one. The Westrogothic law reminded the Geats that they...
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Swedes (tribe) (section Adam of Bremen)
inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden. Along with Geats and Gutes, they were one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes. They had...
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Stenkil (redirect from Stenkil of Sweden)
the law-speaker (lagman) of the Geats, Thorvid. However, the Geats were lightly clothed, "as is always the case with the Geats", while Harald's troops...
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Geats what has happened. When the Geats have gathered, Wiglaf addresses them, mourning Beowulf's death and expressing dismay at the bleak future of the...
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the Geats) proceeded to kill everyone at Roluo's residence. After a long battle, involving Roluo's champion Bjarki, who fought in the shape of a spirit...
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Gert Fröbe (category Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (German: [ˈɡɛɐ̯t ˈfʁøːbə] ; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. He was known in English-speaking countries...
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one of the heirs of his maternal grandfather King Inge I, Magnus claimed Sweden. He was recognized King of Götaland or parts thereof by the Geats (Götar)...
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far south, which were then part of Denmark. The leading tribe of Götaland in the Iron Age was the Geats; the main tribe of Svealand, according to Tacitus...
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Grendel (category All accuracy disputes)
he could hope to eat his fill." Beowulf hears of these attacks and leaves his native land of the Geats to destroy Grendel. He is warmly welcomed by King...
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Pope Adrian IV (redirect from Nicholas of Albano)
archepiscopal see in Sweden. The Swedes and the Geats could not come into an agreement on the location of the see, and the venture came to nothing. According...
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third season of the 1980 Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo series (1980–1982) and The Puppy's New Adventures (1982) respectively. Retitled Scooby's All-Stars from...
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Tawhid (redirect from Oneness of God)
God]' has been suggested. The term includes denial of attributing any form of divinity to any other thing but God, which includes the self by elevating oneself...
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are still to be seen in the groves of Germany the Roman standards which I hung up to our country's gods... [O]ne thing there is which Germans will never...
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did the three pagi of Haga, Sarnes and Helganes (as late as 1027). The Norwegians may even have set up a þing, an assembly of all free men, whose meeting...
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Norsemen (category All articles needing additional references)
the Battle of Bråvalla Wikimedia Commons has media related to Norse history and culture. Anglo-Scandinavian Danes (Germanic tribe) Geats Goths Gotlander...
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Viking Age (redirect from Age of the Vikings)
elements, all under the leadership of Rollo. By the end of the reign of Richard I of Normandy in 996 (aka Richard the Fearless / Richard sans Peur), all descendants...
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mentioned by classical writers in antiquity, in particular the Swedes, Danes, Geats, Gutes and Rugii. During the subsequent Viking Age, seafaring North Germanic...
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Anund Jacob (redirect from Anund jacob of sweden)
that at least some Geats stood under Anund Jacob: "Geatic shield and hauberk / did I bring home from the battle". According to Adam of Bremen, Christianity...
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recruit Beowulf Prince of Geats, and Claw the Unconquered. During this adventure Wonder Woman gives Stalker the proper name of Elpis, which means "hope"...
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climate. However, even with these attempts, climate change was not the only thing putting pressure on the Greenland Norse. The economy was changing, and the...
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Build Fighters: GM's Counterattack Opening Theme: "Carry on" Kamen Rider Geats Insert Song: "Chair" Gundam Build Metaverse Opening Theme: "Hikari to Kaze"...
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Norse clans (category All articles needing additional references)
descent of family groups. The heavy dependence on family and kindred in early Scandinavian history was the foundation of the importance clan. The Thing served...
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such as in the Odin's names Sigtýr ("victory-god"), Gautatýr ("god of the Geats"), Fimbultýr ("powerful god"), or Hertýr ("army-god"), Old English: Tīw...
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Heruli (redirect from Kingdom of the Heruli)
traversed the lands of the Slavs, then empty lands, and then the lands of the Danes, until finally settling down nearby the Geats. Peter Heather considers...
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