Sweordora

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


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