57. See v. 18, above.

58. The _Geats_ were probably settled in southern Sweden. They were the

tribe to which Beowulf belonged.

60. The _Gepidae_ were closely related to the Goths and were originally

located near them at the mouth of the Vistula River. The _Wends_ were

a Slavonic tribe who finally pressed up into the lands vacated in the

great migrations by the Germans between the Elbe and the Vistula.

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