Geats

Gothenburg ( ; ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.

Västergötland (), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.

Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, the Latinized version Ostrogothia is also used. The corresponding administrative county, Östergötland County, covers the entire province and parts of neighbouring provinces.

right|thumb|220px|Geatish settlements during the 6th century, within the red lines. The green areas show the main areas of North Germanic settlement in Scandinavia. The Geats ( ), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with the tribes of Swedes and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of and , the western and eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms.

Lödöse (), also known as Gamla Lödöse is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It is situated 40 kilometers northeast of Gothenburg and is considered the precursor to modern-day Gothenburg.

legendary Geatish hero

right|300px|thumb|Blenda by August Malmström (1829-1901)

Norse mythical character

Swedish noble

200px|thumb|right|Queen Wealtheow as the hostess of the banquet Wealhtheow (also rendered Wealhþēow or Wealthow; ) is a queen of the Danes in the Old English poem Beowulf, first introduced in line 612. thumb|Queen Wealhtheaow Pledges Beowulf (George T. Tobin, 1909)

saga

Chieftain from the Swedish province of West Götaland (909–975)

Sagaholm is the site of Bronze Age burial mounds (Sagaholmshögen). Sagaholm is located in Ljungarums parish just south of Jönköping in Småland, Sweden. thumb|250 px|Sagaholmshögen)

400px|right|thumb|Remains of Götavirke at the farm of Hageby, in Östergötland. On the image the remains of the dyke run from the bottom right up towards the trees, and parallel with the road Götavirke (Geatish Dyke) are the remains of two parallel defensive walls going from north to south between the villages of Västra Husby () and Hylinge () in Söderköping Municipality, Östergötland, Sweden. The walls cover the distance between the lakes Asplången () and Lillsjön (). North of Asplången there are remains of several ancient hill forts that may have been part of the defensive line. South of Lake

thumb|300px|Hlöd has found his dead sister Hervor after the battle with the [[Goths at Myrkviðr. A painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo]] Hlöd or Hlod was the illegitimate son of Heidrek, the king of the Geats, in Norse mythology.

Literary work

dragon from the Beowulf poem

Icelandic saga

semi-legendary 6th-century battles

legends in Norse mythology

Assembly in medieval Sweden

right|250px|thumb| Skalunda Church (Skalunda kyrka) right|250px|thumb|Skalunda Barrow (Skalunda hög)