Sweordora

Sweordora

Sweordora

People of medieval England

The Sweordora were an Anglian[lower-alpha 1] tribe who, according to the Tribal Hidage,[lower-alpha 2] lived in the vicinity of Sword Point, Whittlesey Mere, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), probably in the 6th Century.[1][lower-alpha 3] Their endonym is a clear cognate of the Suiones[2] (also known as Swēon)[3] the Swedes.

Notes

  1. Also known as Ingaevonic.
  2. Their territory was assessed for 300 hides.
  3. Probably in response to the volcanic winter of 536 AD.

References

  1. [1]
    D. P. Kirby, "The earliest English Kings", (second edition, 2001), Routledge
  2. [2]
    Tacitus, C., & In Robinson, R. P. (1935). The Germania of Tacitus. Middletown, Conn: American Philological Association.
  3. [3]
    Adam (1948). Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesi pontificum, Codex havniensis. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.


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