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	Suiones - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Suiones, Swedes, Svíar or Svear, were an ancient Germanic tribe in Scandinavia.
		The Aesir-cult center in Gamla Uppsala, was the religious centre of the Swedes and where the Swedish king served as a priest during the sacrifices (blóts).
		The Suiones are distinguished not merely for their arms and men, but for their powerful fleets, though the style of their ships is unusual in that there is a prow at each end so that the boat can advance head-on in either direction.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Svitjod (1899 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Suiones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Uppsala was also the centre of the Uppsala Ã¶d, the network of royal estates that financed the Swedish king and his court until the 13th century.
		During the 8th century and 9th century Suione traders and raiders settled in the north of eastern Europe, a country of rivers and Baltic, Slavic and Finnish tribes.
		The Suiones described by Tacitus, the Viking Age Svear and the modern Swedes may have few common things between them besides living in Scandinavia, speaking a North Germanic language and having the same name: thus a question arises whether it is meaningful to consider them sharing the same ethnicity.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Suiones (2343 words)

	Tacitus "Germanien und seine Stämme"
		These Suiones had ships that were peculiar because they had a prow in both ends (the shape we recognise as Viking ships).
		Beyond the Suiones is another sea, one very heavy and almost void of agitation; and by it the whole globe is thought to be bounded and environed, for that the reflection of the sun, after his setting, continues till his rising, so bright as to darken the stars.
		Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones.
	wanclik.free.fr /tacitus.htm (10225 words)

	Suiones
		Their primary dwellings were in Roslagen on the eastern coast of Sweden, in the area of the present cities of Uppsala, Stockholm and around the shores of Lake Mälaren.
		During the Viking Age they constituted the basis of the Varangian subset, the Vikings that travelled eastwards (see Rus').
		In literature, the Svear are named in the Old English epic Beowulf as Sweonas, and by the Roman author Tacitus under the name Suiones in his Germania (book).
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/su/suiones.html (215 words)

	Suiones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The established Svealand theory holds that the Aesir-cult center in Gamla Uppsala, was the religious centre of the Swedes and where the Swedish king served as a priest during the sacrifices (blóts).
		Noréen (1920) proposed that Suiones is a Latin rendering of
		This is because the sea prevents sudden inroads from enemies, and because bands of armed men who have nothing to do often become unruly.
	suiones.iqnaut.net (1669 words)

	Swedish people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Smaller groups of historical descendants of 18th-19th century Swedish emigrants who still retain some forms of Swedish identity to this day can be found in the Americas and in the Ukraine.
		The Suiones, as an ancient Germanic tribe, sometimes named Svear in academic works, were at the roots of the Swedish statehood, and contemporary with the Geats and the Goths in Scandinavia.
		Notably, in modern Scandinavian languages, with the exception of Icelandic, there is a distinction between svenskar and svear (as between danskar (Danes) and Daner), since the latter term does not include the Geats and the Gotlanders and other populations whose descendants are part of the present population of Sweden.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Swede (1776 words)

	Chapter 21 - Across the Balt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This was no more than a pleasant warming for her big bottom, sufficient to make her squirm and wriggle and perhaps to remind her through the day of her status, but hardly a severe application.
		It was their legend that the women warriors were rulers of the kingdom of the dead, because no Suiones who had ever entered those waters had returned.
		The heavy and well oiled leather strap favored by the Suiones for such events would smack onto her flesh loudly, leaving a wide and rapidly darkening stripe on her pale skin.
	www.cuffs.com /submission/journeyman21.html (4198 words)

	Tacitus - Selections - Page 48
		Beyond the Suiones is another sea, sluggish and almost motionless, which, we may certainly infer, girdle, and surrounds the world, from the fact that the last radiance of the setting sun lingers on till sunrise, with a brightness sufficient to dim the light of the stars.
		Even the very sounds of his rising, as popular belief adds, may be heard, and the forms of gods and the glory round his head may be seen.
		Closely bordering on the Suiones are the tribes of the Sitones, which, resembling them in all else, differ only in being ruled by a woman.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu06/tacitus_page_48.htm (417 words)

	Suiones biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		According to one theory (Noréen 1920) Suiones is a latin rendering of a Proto-Germanic *Swihoniz, meaning "one's own (tribesmen)", derived from the same Indo-European root as the Latin suus (i.e.
		This time we have information about the royal house of the Suiones, which is named the Scylfings a dynasty which is known to Scandinavian sources as well (see Swedish semi-legendary kings).
		There is a prophesy that the Geats will be subdued by the Swedes and that is what happened.
	suiones.biography.ms (1556 words)

	Northvegr - The Cult of Othin
		In Tacitus' account the Swedes (Suiones) present a striking contrast to all the other nations of Germany.
		He passes on to the Suiones, not by way of the Elbe tribes, but by a much more eastern course.
		The tribes mentioned last before the Suionee are the Gotones, Rugii and Lemouii; after the Suiones he passes immediately to the Aestii.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/othin/00302.php (2713 words)

	Northmen (Vikings)
		This article will be confined to the history of their exodus.
		Tacitus refers to the "Suiones" (Germ., xliv, xlv) living beyond the Baltic as rich in arms and ships and men.
		But, except for the chance appearance of a small Viking fleet in the Meuse early in the sixth century, nothing more is heard of the Scandinavians until the end of the eighth century, when the forerunners of the exodus appeared as raiders off the English and Scottish coasts.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/northmen.html (1593 words)

	Northvegr - A History of the Vikings
		That the Romans mistook the great Scandinavian peninsula for an island is not in itself remarkable, but it is certainly a curious thing that nothing further is heard of the Scandinavian people whom Pliny called the Hilleviones.
		Next to the Suiones are the tribes of the Sitones who resemble the Suiones in all respects except that the Sitones have a woman as ruler.
		The identification of the Suiones with the Swedes (Svear) is a matter of certainty, but there has been considerable doubt as to the identity of the Sitones.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/history_viking/018.php (1582 words)

	Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
		Jordanes wrote, in the 6th century, that the Swedes were the suppliers of fl fox skins for the Roman market and had the best horses beside the Thuringians.
		During the Scandinavian Viking culture of the 9th and 10th century, the spheres of interest were so distributed, that trade, raiding and colonisation from present-day Sweden primarily went eastward, to Balticum, Russia and the Black Sea, while the Danes (including those in present-day South-Sweden) went southward, and the Norwegians concentrated on Scotland, Ireland and Iceland.
	sweden.area51.ipupdater.com (2812 words)

	Chapter State Of Germany Until The Barbarians. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Among the Suiones (says Tacitus) riches are held in honor.
		They are therefore subject to an absolute monarch, who, instead of intrusting his people with the free use of arms, as is practised in the rest of Germany, commits them to the safe custody, not of a citizen, or even of a freedman, but of a slave.
		The neighbors of the Suiones, the Sitones, are sunk even below servitude; they obey a woman." In the mention of these exceptions, the great historian sufficiently acknowledges the general theory of government.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25651/5.html (771 words)

	Home > Hercules, California, CA, 94547, Hercules Real Estate, Hercules Yellow Pages, Hercules Classifieds, Hercules ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rugii and the Lemovii] are the states (civitates) of the Suiones, but these are in the ocean itself (i.e.
		Norse mythology presents a line mythical kings whom Thor Heyerdahl has proposed existed in real life (see Mythological kings of Sweden).
		The third Anglo-Saxon source is Alfred the Great\'s translation of Orosius\' Histories, where are told the voyages of Ottar from HÃ¥logaland and Wulfstan of Hedeby, who in the 9th century described the Sweon and Sweoland.
	www.herculescaus.com /section/Suiones (2362 words)

	Tacitus - Selections - Page 47
		Immediatley adjoining them, further from the coast, are the Rugii and Lemovii, the bade of all these tribes being the round shield, the short sword, and servile submission to their kings.
		And now begin the states of the suiones, situated on the Ocean itself, and these, besides men and arms, are powerful in ships.
		The form of their vessels is peculiar in this respect, that a prow at either extremity acts as a forepart, always ready for running into shore.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu06/tacitus_page_47.htm (270 words)

	Snapshot of Europe: Sweden
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
		Sweden as a name originated in a so-called "back-formation" from the plural form Swedes (Old English Sweoðeod, Swedish Svear), the people of the Suiones.
		This referred to the inhabitants of Svealand primarily around lake Mälaren; towns of Stockholm, Sigtuna and Birka.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Europeweb/snapshot/Snapshot-Europe40.htm (729 words)

	Suiones - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the Viking_Age they constituted the basis of the Varangian subset, the Vikings that travelled eastwards (see Rus').
		The established Svealand_theory holds that Svear, based at the Asa-cult center in Ancient_Uppsala, dominated the territory and gave it its name.
		In literature, the Svear are named in the Old_English epic Beowulf as ''Sweonas'', and by the Roman author Tacitus under the name ''Suiones'' in his Germania.
	www.indexsuche.com /Suiones.html (260 words)

	Ancient Classical History - Comprehensive Site on Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His descriptions include a people known to him as the Suiones who appear to be inhabitants of Sweden.
		Next occur the communities of the Suiones, seated in the very Ocean, who, besides their strength in men and arms, also possess a naval force.
		The form of their vessels differs from ours in having a prow at each end, so that they are always ready to advance.
	ancienthistory.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 (1228 words)

	Sweden HISTORY
		Sweden and the Swedes are first referred to in written records by the Roman historian Tacitus, who, in his Germania (
		98), mentions the Suiones, a people "mighty in ships and arms." These people, also referred to as Svear, conquered their southern neighbors, the Gotar, merged with them, and extended their dominion over most of what is now central and southern Sweden.
		In the 9th and 10th centuries when Vikings from the Norwegian homeland traveled west to Iceland, Greenland and farther afield to Newfoundland, Vikings from eastern Sweden raided areas southeastward across Russia to Constantinople.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Europe/Sweden-HISTORY.html (1802 words)

	Chronology of Sweden
		It is proclaimed that the king has the right to call out the fleet and rowers.
		Roman historian Tacitus writes in the Latin book De Germania about tribes of Suiones in Scandinavia, who live off the ocean, sailing in large fleets of boats with a prow at either end, no sail, using paddles, and strong, loyal, well-armed men with spikes in their helmets.
		Egyptian astrologer and geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria draws his first map of countries on the Baltic Sea, with Scandia as the largest and most easterly of four islands in the "Germanic Ocean".
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/swedhis (1110 words)

	Romans In Germany Teacher Workshop: Passages in Tacitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		45: Beyond the Suiones we find another sea, sluggish and almost stagnant.
		He cuts off her hair, strips her naked, and in the presence of kinsmen turns her out of his house and flogs her all through the village.
		45: [Sitones]: Bordering on the Suiones are the nations of the Sitones.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/romansin/germany/passages.shtm (1250 words)

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