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People of medieval England
The Sweordora were an
Anglian
[a] tribe who, according to the
Tribal Hidage,
[b] lived in the vicinity of Sword Point,
Whittlesey Mere,
Cambridgeshire (formerly
Huntingdonshire), probably in the 6th Century.
[1]
[c] Their
endonym is a clear
cognate of the Suiones
[2] (also known as Swēon)
[3] the
Swedes.
Notes
References
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^ D. P. Kirby, "The earliest English Kings", (second edition, 2001), Routledge
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^ Tacitus, C., & In Robinson, R. P. (1935). The Germania of Tacitus. Middletown, Conn: American Philological Association.
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^
Adam (1948). Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesi pontificum, Codex havniensis. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.