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SUIONES

Eth. SUIONES are mentioned only by Tacitus (Germ. 44) as the most northern of the German tribes, dwelling on an island in the ocean. He was no doubt thinking of Scandia or Scandinavia; and Suiones unquestionably contains the root of the modern name Sweden and Swedes.

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