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ChrisGreenHeur • today at 10:23 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You did not find it weird that Beowulf identified as a geat?


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INTPenis • today at 3:48 PM

Never read it, but also, wasn't it written like hundreds of years after? I thought the oldest written stories we had were Snorres and the Icelandic sagas.

So the 5th and 6th centuries are still very much guesswork when it comes to scandinavian history.

I just always assumed that the legend of Rome was powerful enough for swedes to claim the Goths. But it makes sense that it's based on fact.