The name of Gotland is closely related to that of the Geats and Goths.. History Prehistoric time to Viking Age. The island was the home of the Gutes, and sites such as the Ajvide Settlement show that it has been occupied since prehistory. A DNA study conducted on the 5,000-year-old skeletal remains of three Middle Neolithic seal hunters from Gotland showed that they were related to …

The name of the Gutes in Old West Norse is Gotar (adj. gotneskr), which is the same as that used for the Goths. Old Norse sources such as the sagas do not distinguish between the Goths and the Gutes. In accordance, the Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gutes seems to have been Gutar (adj. gutniskr). Only the Goths and Gutes bear this name among all the Germanic …

De Gotlander levert een zachte, zijdeachtige wol, variërend van licht- tot donkergrijs. Het spinnen van de wol vereist vaardigheid, maar is goed te doen. De wol is zeer geschikt om te vilten en het laat zich goed verven. De huid is ook geschikt om te laten looien. De vachten kan men ook laten scheren, verven en waxen met een leer- of ...

The Swedes (Swedish: svear; Old Norse: svíar) (probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own [tribesmen/kinsmen]"; Old English: Swēon) 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.They had their tribal centre in Gamla Uppsala.

The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic ethnolinguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages and is the predecessor of the modern Germanic languages of Scandinavia. During the late eighth century, Scandinavians embarked …

Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America.In some of the countries they …

The Hanseatic League (/ ˌ h æ n s i ˈ æ t ɪ k /; Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Modern German: Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League ultimately encompassed nearly …

What may have increased the spread of runestones was an event in Denmark in the 960s. King Harald Bluetooth had just been baptised and in order to mark the arrival of a new order and a new age, he commanded the construction of a runestone. The inscription reads King Haraldr ordered this monument made in memory of Gormr, his father, and in memory of Þyrvé, his mother; that …

Une équipe hors du commun ou Une Ligue en Jupons au Québec (A League of Their Own) est un film américain réalisé par Penny Marshall sorti en 1992.C'est une fiction basée sur les débuts bien réels de la ligue féminine de baseball américain : la All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Le personnage de Jimmy Dugan joué par Tom Hanks s'inspire de la vie de Jimmie Foxx.

Gutasaga (Gutasagan) is a saga regarding the history of Gotland before its Christianization.It was recorded in the 13th century and survives in only a single manuscript, the Codex Holm. B 64, dating to c. 1350, kept at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm together with the Gutalag, the legal code of Gotland.It was written in the Old Gutnish language, a variety of Old Norse.

Likewise, the Gotlander Guta Lag indicates slavery could be for a fixed period and as a method to pay for debt. Within the Older Västgöta Law widows are only allowed to remarry if an enslaved fostre or fostra could manage the farm in her absence. Likewise, the Younger Västgöta Law indicates further trust for fostre and fostra as they could ...

Ragazze vincenti (A League of Their Own) è un film del 1992 diretto da Penny Marshall ed è la storia romanzata degli inizi della All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, il campionato di baseball femminile che si giocò dal 1943 al 1954.. Nel 2012 è stato scelto per essere conservato nel National Film Registry della Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America.

A League of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The film stars Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, and Bill Pullman.The screenplay was …