Editing Geats (section)

{{Short description|Northern Germanic people}}
{{about|the North Germanic tribe|the Thracian tribe|Getae}}
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[[File:Nordic Settlements.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Geatish settlements during the 6th century, within the red lines. The green areas show the main areas of North Germanic settlement in [[Scandinavia]].]]
The '''Geats''' ({{IPAc-en|g|iː|t|s|,_|ˈ|g|eɪ|ə|t|s|,_|j|æ|t|s|}} {{respell|GHEETS|,_|GAY|əts|,_|YATS}};<ref>{{cite Merriam-Webster|Geat}}</ref><ref>{{cite American Heritage Dictionary|Geat}}</ref> {{langx|ang|gēatas}} {{IPA|ang|ˈjæɑtɑs|}}; {{langx|non|gautar}} {{IPA|non|ˈɡɑu̯tɑr|}}; {{langx|sv|götar}} {{IPA|sv|ˈjø̂ːtar|}}), sometimes called ''[[Geats#Goths|Goths]]'',<ref>E.g. [[Encarta|Microsoft Encarta]] (on Swedish history), [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Volsunga/ translations from Old Norse] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051211180329/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Volsunga/ |date=11 December 2005 }}, [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9701 Anglo-Saxon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804043940/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9701 |date=4 August 2020 }} or [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html Latin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108030836/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html |date=8 November 2014 }} and the [[Primary Chronicle]] and some modern scholarly works on Germanic tribes.</ref> were a large [[North Germanic peoples|North Germanic]] tribe who inhabited {{lang|sv|[[Götaland]]|italic=no}} ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the [[Late Middle Ages]]. They are one of the [[progenitor]] groups of modern [[Swedes]], along with the tribes of [[Swedes (tribe)|Swedes]] and [[Gutes]]. The name of the Geats also lives on in the [[Provinces of Sweden|Swedish provinces]] of {{lang|sv|[[Västergötland]]|italic=no}} and {{lang|sv|[[Östergötland]]|italic=no}}, the western and eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other [[toponym]]s.

The Swedish dialects spoken in the areas that used to be inhabited by Geats form a distinct group, ''[[Götamål]]''.