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⚔️The legendary Beowulf was a 6th C. Geat” from Götaland-they are part of the original “Gothic” tribes that migrated out of Scandinavia. The Beowulf saga itself illustrates the this, along with many contemporary historians. Beowulf and his men travel the land fighting in service of others. The Geats (Old English: Gēatas) were an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern-day southern Sweden from antiquity through the Middle Ages. They are one of the core ancestral groups that eventually merged to form the modern Swedish nation, alongside the Swedes (Svear) and the Gutes. The Geats were known as great warriors, and the 8th Century Saga of Beowulf describes them this way, Quote: “Each tough hand linked coat of mail sparkled, and the shimmering ringlets of iron clinked in their corselets. When they arrived in armor at the hall, the sea-beaten men unslung their broad double-proofed shields and ranged them against the palace wall.” “They then seated themselves on the bench; their corselets rang. The seafarers weapons, iron headed ash spears, were neatly piled. They were a well equipped company..” Beowulf was helmeted, carried an ancestral patterned sword of the finest metal, and wore a corselet of mail which he claimed was the best in the world as it was made for his grandfather Hrethel by Weyland the Smith himself. This mail was of such quality that “the monstrous mother of Grendel could not force her talons between its closely woven links.”