Geats

Skara was the location for the regional assembly, the Thing of all Geats.

The Gauts (Geats) did not accept this and assembled their forces.

Onela returned home and Beowulf became king of the Geats.

It was the Geats' only port on the west coast: hence, it had great strategic importance.

As he despised the Geats, he decided not to demand hostages from their prominent clans.

Beowulf's death presages "warfare, death, and darkness" for his Geats.

Thus, the Geats explained the murder of Ragnvald as vengeance for his arrogant attitude towards them.

The Geats arrived to the ships with a great army to fight king Harald, but they lost after great losses.

Ironically the story of Sigemund is told to Beowulf, a warrior also from Geats.

The Geats of Västergötland was historically an inland people, making an epithet such as weather- or sea- a little strange.

A common definition of Sweden is that it was formed when the Swedes and Geats were ruled by one king.

Hygelac, king of the Geats (approximate date)

The visitors, who reveal themselves to be Geats ruled by Hygelac, have an uneasy relationship with the Danes.

The measures that Geats had taken to protect the route have no match in the Viking Age Sweden.

The fact that some sources are silent about the Geats indicates that any independent Geatish kingdom no longer existed in the 9th century.

As their old territory was now occupied by the Danes, they settled next to the Geats in present-day Sweden.

When the dragon mercilessly burns the Geats' homes and lands, Beowulf decides to kill the monster.

In Scandinavia, they settled beside the Geats (Gautoi).

The Geats (the warriors who hunt the troll) alternatively translate the name as "grinder of men's bones" to demonize their prey.

However, the oldest medieval Swedish sources present the Swedish kingdom as having remaining legal differences between Swedes and Geats.

To these ends he encourages her to recruit Beowulf Prince of Geats, and Claw the Unconquered.

Another possibility is of course that the name of the "Geats" developed independently from that of the Gutar/Goths.

Unlike the Swedes, who used the division hundare, the Geats used hærrad, like the Norwegians and the Danes.

However, this election also ushered in a long period of civil unrest between Christians and pagans and between Geats and Swedes.

Thing of all Geats, an equivalent assembly of the Geats that took place in Skara.