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1st century and Swedes (Germanic tribe)

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Difference between 1st century and Swedes (Germanic tribe)

1st century vs. Swedes (Germanic tribe)

The 1st century was the century that lasted from AD 1 to AD 100 according to the Julian calendar. The Swedes (svear; Old Norse: svíar / suar (probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own ";Bandle, Oskar. 2002. The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. 2002. P.391 Old English: Sweonas) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes. The first author who wrote about the tribe is Tacitus, who in his Germania, from 98 CE mentions the Suiones. Jordanes, in the sixth century, mentions Suehans and Suetidi. According to early sources such as the sagas, especially Heimskringla, the Swedes were a powerful tribe whose kings claimed descendence from the god Freyr. During the Viking Age they constituted the basis of the Varangian subset, the Vikings that travelled eastwards (see Rus' people).

Similarities between 1st century and Swedes (Germanic tribe)

1st century and Swedes (Germanic tribe) have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Germanic peoples, Goths, Pliny the Elder, Swedes, Tacitus.

Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.

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Goths

The Goths (Gut-þiuda; Gothi) were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence of Medieval Europe.

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Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden.

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Tacitus

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (–) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.

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1st century and Swedes (Germanic tribe) Comparison

1st century has 307 relations, while Swedes (Germanic tribe) has 107. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.21% = 5 / (307 + 107).

References

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