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Sweón

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
Sweón, pl.
Wright's OE grammar
§402;
The Swedes
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  • Burgendan habbaþ Sweón be norþan him . . . Sweón habbaþ be súþan him ðone sǽs earm,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 16, 31-34.
  • Ðá Sweón heafdon weallstówe geweald,

      Chr. 1025; Erl. 163, 11.
  • Sacu Sweóna and Geáta,

      Beo. Th. 4936; B. 2472: (Swona, MS.), 5885; B. 2946: 5908; B. 2958.
  • Ic wæs mid Sweóm,

      Exon. Th. 322, 4; Víd. 58: 320, 19; Víd. 31.
  • Ðás land hýraþ tó Sweón,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 20, 4.
Etymology
[Icel. Svíar. The Latin form is Suiones in Tacitus, later Sueones.]
Similar entries
v. Sweó-land, -ríce, -þeód.
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  • Sweón, n.