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  Gutasaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gutasaga is a saga treating the history of Gotland before its Christianization.
Historically, the Goths followed the Vistula, but during the Viking Age, the Dvina-Dniepr waterway succeeded the Vistula as the main trade route to Greece for the Gutar (or Gotar in standard Old Norse), and it is not surprising that it also replaced the Vistula in the migration traditions.
The Gutasaga contains several referenses to the relationship between Gotland and Sweden, and asserts that it is based on mutual agreements, and notes the duties and obligations of the Swedish King and Bishop in relationship to Gotland.
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 Gotlander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their oldest history is retold in the Gutasaga, where it is related that because of overpopulation one third of the Gutar had to emigrate and settle in southern Europe.
The fact that the ethnonym is identical to Goth may be the reason why they are not mentioned as a special group until Jordanes' Getica, where they may be those who are called Vagoths (see Scandza).
Before the 7th century, they made a trade and defence agreement with Swedish kings, according to the Gutasaga.
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 Island of Ruins and Roses - The World and I Magazine
According to the Gutasaga, a legendary thirteenth-century recounting of Gotland's early history that forms part of a larger body of work, the Guta Lag, or "Gotland law," the first man to come to Gotland was called Tjelvar.
The Gutasaga goes on to say that the three sons' descendants multiplied until, sometime between the first and fifth century, the land cold no longer feed them all.
Their original religion is described in some detail in the Gutasaga, which says that in the fifth century, groves of trees on small hills were considered as holy places, which were enclosed.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Goths
in about the 1st century (but the Gutasaga leaves open the possibility of prolonged contact).
The Gotlanders (Gutar) themselves had oral traditions of a mass migration towards southern Europe, written down in the Gutasaga.
If the facts are related, that would be a unique case of a tradition that survived in more than a thousand years and that actually pre-dates most of the major splits in the Germanic language family.
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 Origins of the Rus
Grobin has however been used in support of prior suppositions by scholars that peaceful trading activity by Scandinavians in the eastern Baltic was an occupation dominated by Gotlanders up to the beginning of the raiding period.
The history of Gotland as told by the Gutasaga recounts a Viking Age emigration to the island of Dago, in the Gulf of Riga, which they later abandoned, sailing up the Dvina into Russia.
The Gutasaga does mention that some of them travelled as far as Greece.
www.geocities.com /Athens/9529/scanrus.htm   (2439 words)

  
 Old Norse
If a Southerner is slain or an Englishman, he shall pay four marks to the plaintif and two marks to the king.
The Gutasaga is the longest text surviving from Old Gutnish.
It was written in the 13th century and dealt with the early history of the Gotlanders.
libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Old_Norse.html   (4420 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gothiscandza
Norse mythology presents at least two traditions that may be connected to Gothiscandza.
The Gutasaga relates that when the Gotlanders had multiplied so that the island (Gotland, i.e.
Goth-land) no longer could support them, they drew lots so that one third of the island's inhabitants had to leave and settle in the south.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gothiscandza   (644 words)

  
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Konovalov, T. Baranauskas, C. Zuckerman can be specified as the authors whose conclusions were directly associated with the issue of the origin of Rahvalod and/or their works suited the main purpose of this study best of all [1].
The most well-known contact of the Scandinavians with the Dzvina region had been described in the “Gutasaga”.
This is the name of the chronicle from the Gotland Island which was written approximately in 1220.
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 GUTASAGA Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
GUTASAGA Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
The events would have needed to be transmitted orally for almost a millennium before the text was written down.
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 WHKMLA : Regesta Gotlandica, until 1200
From Olav Tryggvesson's Saga : Norwegian King Olav Tryggvesson undertook an expedition to Gotland, where he took a merchant ship and where he successfully pillaged parts of the island.
From Gutasaga : The Gotlanders placed themselves under the protection of the King of Sweden and agreed to pay an annual tribute..
From Olav den Hellige's Saga : King Olav den Hellige (1015-1030) visited the island and converted a native by the name of Ormika to christianity..
www.zum.de /whkmla/documents/rg/rguntil1200.html   (572 words)

  
 Scandinavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A large island within the Baltic Sea, near the southeastern coast of Sweden.
According to the Gutasaga, the Gotlanders' History, the descendants of Hafthi and his followers grew so numerous that it was decided that one third of the population, drawn by lots, would have to leave.
Those selected eventually reached Miklagardr (Constantinople), where they asked "the King of the Greeks" for permission to stay for "the waxing and waning of the moon".
www.hostkingdom.net /scand.html   (3572 words)

  
 The Gotlandic History by year
Olof Haraldsson, now a converted Christian, visits Gotland on his way from Novgorod to Stiklastad where he dies in battle.
It is probably this trip that is mentioned in the Gutasaga.
The Gutar seem to completely dominate the trade in the Baltic.
www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/mirror/gutar/Years.html   (868 words)

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