Sweordora

The Sweordora were an Anglian[a] tribe who, according to the Tribal Hidage,[b] lived in the vicinity of Sword Point, Whittlesey Mere, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), probably in the 6th Century.[1][c] Their endonym is a clear cognate of the Suiones[2] (also known as Swēon)[3] the Swedes.

Notes

  1. ^ Also known as Ingaevonic.
  2. ^ Their territory was assessed for 300 hides.
  3. ^ Probably in response to the volcanic winter of 536 AD.

References

  1. ^ D. P. Kirby, "The earliest English Kings", (second edition, 2001), Routledge
  2. ^ Tacitus, C., & In Robinson, R. P. (1935). The Germania of Tacitus. Middletown, Conn: American Philological Association.
  3. ^ Adam (1948). Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesi pontificum, Codex havniensis. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.


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