The Gutasaga is a saga treating the history of Gotland before its Christianization. is a county, province and municipality of Sweden and the largest Island in the Baltic Sea. The historical phenomenon of Christianization (or Christianisation &mdash see spelling differences) the conversion of individuals to Christianity It was recorded in the 13th century and survives in only a single manuscript, the Codex Holm. B 64, dating to ca. 1350, kept at the Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm) together with the Gutalag, the legal code of Gotland. The National Library of Sweden Sweden has had a legal deposit law since 1661 and the National Library has been collecting and preserving everything printed in ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the See also Medieval Scandinavian laws Gutalagen is an early Swedish (or Gutnish law book from Gotland that officially was in use until 1595 It was written in the Old Gutnish dialect of Old Norse. Old Gutnish was the dialect of Old Norse that was spoken on the island of Gotland. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age

Contents 1 Foundation and emigration to southern Europe 2 Entry into the Swedish kingdom 3 See also 4 External links

Foundation and emigration to southern Europe

The saga begins with Þieluar and his son Hafþi, who had three sons, Graipr, Guti and Gunfjaun, the ancestors of the Gutar. Þjálfi ( Old Norse) or Þjelvar (Old Gutnish) is a farmer's son in Norse mythology who appears twice in Snorri 's Edda The Gotlanders are the population of the island of Gotland. In Swedish they are also called Gutar an ethnonym identical to Goths ( The saga tells of an emigration, that is associated with the historical migration of the Goths during the Migration period:

over a long time, the people descended from these three multiplied so much that the land couldn't support them all. The Goths ( Gothic: Gothic usvg|14px|u]]Gothic asvg|14px|a]]Gothic s The Migration Period, also called Barbarian Invasions, or sometimes Völkerwanderung ( German for "wandering of peoples" is the English name Then they draw lots, and every third person was picked to leave, and they could keep everything they owned and take it with them, except for their land. . . . they went up the river Dvina, up through Russia. They went so far that they came to the land of the Greeks. . . . they settled there, and live there still, and still have something of our language.

That the Goths should have gone "to the land of the Greeks" is consistent with their first appearance in classical sources: Eusebius of Caesarea reported that they devastated "Macedonia, Greece, the Pontus, and Asia" in 263. Macedon or Macedonia ( Greek grc Μακεδονία grc-Latn Makedonía) was the name of a kingdom centered in the northern-most Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Geography The Black Sea region loosely called Pontus by various scholars has a steep rocky coast with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges The Roman province of Asia, also called Phrygia was an administrative unit added to the late Republic. Events By Place Roman Empire The Goths invade Ephesus and destroy city and temple

The emigration would have taken place in the 1st century AD, and loose contact with their homeland would have been maintained for another two centuries, the comment that the emigrant's language "still has something" in common shows awareness of dialectal separation. The 1st century was the Century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. The events would have needed to be transmitted orally for almost a millennium before the text was written down.

The mention of the Dvina river is in good agreement with the Wielbark Culture. The Daugava or Western Dvina (Daugava Западная Двина́ (Zapadnaya Dvina Заходняя Дзвiна za'xodnʲaja dzʲvʲi'na Dźwina Düna Väina Wielbark culture also known as Willenberg culture (Wielbark/Willenberg-Kultur Kultura wielbarska Вельбарська культура ( Vel’bars’ka kul’tura Historically, the Goths followed the Vistula, but during the Viking Age, the Dvina-Dniepr waterway succeeded the Vistula as the main trade route to Greece for the Gutar (or Gotar in standard Old Norse), and it is not surprising that it also replaced the Vistula in the migration traditions. Viking Age is the term denoting the years from about 700 to 1066 in European history. For the rocket see Dnepr rocket. For other uses see Dnieper (disambiguation. The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks (Путь «из варяг в греки» Put iz varyag v greki) was a Trade route, which connected Scandinavia Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age

Entry into the Swedish kingdom

The Gutasaga contains several references to the relationship between Gotland and Sweden, and asserts that it is based on mutual agreements, and notes the duties and obligations of the Swedish King and Bishop in relationship to Gotland. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. It is therefore not only an effort to write down the history of Gotland, but also an effort to assert Gotland's independence from Sweden.

It gives Awair Strabain as the man who arranged the mutually beneficial agreement with the king of Sweden, and the event would have taken place before the end of the 9th century, when Wulfstan of Hedeby reported that the island was subject to the Swedes. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. Wulfstan of Hedeby (Latin Haithabu) was a late 9th century traveller and trader (See Consolidation of Sweden)

See also

• Norse saga
• Geats
• Goths
• Gutar

External links

• Original text (based on Gannholm's 1992 edition)
• English translation by Peter Tunstall (2004), Northvegr

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