Geats also called Weder-Folk or Weders. This is Beowulf's tribe in southwestern Sweden.
eddy a current running contrary to the main current, sometimes producing whirlpools.
retainer an attendant to the king, here sometimes used interchangeably with "thane."
mail flexible armor made of small, overlapping rings or scales.
lineage ancestry, background, heritage.
word-hoard a kenning for vocabulary.
shield of the people here, a reference to King Hrothgar.
Weders Geats
gold-laced hall Heorot
Weland in Germanic legend, a blacksmith with magical powers; he made Beowulf's war-shirt (455).
Lapps inhabitants of northern Scandinavia and Finland. The Anglo-Saxon is "Finna land" (580).
