Geatland

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Geatland is the homeland of the hero Beowulf, depicted in the Old English epic as the territory of the Geats in what is now southern Sweden.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Geatland canonical 1
kingdom of the Geats 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf legendary region
mythical homeland
appearsIn Old English epic poetry
associatedWithEthnicGroup Geats
associatedWithModernCountry Sweden
associatedWithModernRegion Götaland
associatedWithPeople Beowulf
Heardred
Hygelac
Wiglaf
associatedWithSea Baltic Sea
conflictWithInBeowulf Swedes
country Sweden
culturalContext Anglo-Saxon literature
describedIn Beowulf
genreContext Germanic heroic legend
governedByInBeowulf Beowulf
Heardred
Hygelac
historicalRegionCorrespondence Götaland
historicityStatus partly historical, partly literary
languageOfPrimarySource Old English
locatedIn southern Sweden
mentionedAs the Geats
surface form: land of the Geats
narrativeFunction setting of Beowulf’s final battle with the dragon
starting point of Beowulf’s journey
nativeHero Beowulf
neighborInBeowulf Denmark
land of the Swedes
partOf Scandinavia
politicalStatusInBeowulf separate kingdom from the Danes
primarySourceCulture Anglo-Saxon England
primarySourceLanguage Old English
primarySourceTitle Beowulf
relatedHistoricalPeople Gautar
relatedHistoricalRegion Gautar
surface form: land of the Gautar
roleInBeowulf homeland of Beowulf
Geatland self-linksurface differs
surface form: kingdom of the Geats
scholarlyTopic Beowulf studies
Germanic philology
Scandinavian history
timeOfLiteraryAttestation early Middle Ages
traditionalInhabitants Geats
travelRouteInBeowulf sea voyage to Denmark

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beowulf primaryLocation Geatland
Geatland roleInBeowulf Geatland self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: kingdom of the Geats