Vanir

[Tore Gannholm]

Ingemar,
I don't think there lived any Svear in Västergötland.

Further the word Svear only appears in the Middle ages

Tore


2 aug 2012 kl. 13:01 skrev ingemarn2000:

> Tore!
> 
> You use a lot of words to write generally known things but if you all the time will continue to believe the svear specificially lived only in Uppland and the Mälar area we will come no longer. Suiones was the name used for all Scandinavian populations before their real tribal names were known from abroad. The Gautar were known earlier than the distant peoples in e.g. Uppland and hence they were called Sviar a longer time. Pliny mentions Scadinavia as you say and so does the Langobardic origin myth and Jordanes/Cassiodorus. I never thought as well the Gotland had a midnight sun. Plinius mentions the Goutai as a known name but the remaining Svia peoples are still obscure as with Tacitus they are still more obscure. Be proud for close connections with your island and the Goths and do not deny that also southern Scandinavia is as well included. Thule was the Greek name rather and quite unspecific.
> 
> Best
> Ingemar
> 
> 



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