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- Älv estuary was the border between the Kingdoms of Norway and Denmark. Geatland is the land in which the medieval hero of the poem Beowulf is said to have...
- and his court were terrorized by the monstrous Grendel, Beowulf left Geatland (West Götaland) and sailed to Zealand with fourteen warriors in order to...
- causes their father Hrethel to die from grief. Then Hæþcyn becomes king of Geatland. During the Swedish-Geatish wars, Hæþcyn kidnaps the Swedish queen, and...
- However, his brother was the king of Geatland and, like Beowulf, Bǫðvarr Bjarki arrived in Denmark from Geatland. Moreover, his killing of the monster...
- introduced in line 1925 of the poem Beowulf, is married to of King Hygelac of Geatland. She is the daughter of Hæreth. After Beowulf defeats Grendel and Grendel's...
- death, in Frisia, Hygd wants to make Hygelac's nephew Beowulf, king of Geatland, as she fears that the young Heardred won't be able to defend his people...
- Swedish: Götakungar), ruling over the provinces of Götaland (Gautland/Geatland), appear in several sources for early Swedish history. Today, most of them...
- sons, and the founder of the kingdom of the Geats, Götaland (Gautland/Geatland), in Bósa saga ok Herrauðs (c. 1300). This Gautr/Gauti also appears as...
- one of the later settings, his father Gaut gave his name to Götaland (Geatland). In Nafnaþulur, he is mentioned as one of the sea-kings, after his father...
- son of Wonred, was a Geatish warrior in Beowulf. When the Swedes invaded Geatland (Götaland), the Geatish king Hæþcyn was killed by the Swedish king Ongenþeow...