Re: Sulones = Suiones?

At 7:03:28 PM on Monday, December 20, 2010, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> BTW, is there any link at all between Svea, Suionoes and
> Schwaben (or Swoop, as my Schwab ancestors spelled it)? Or
> is this a cheap fancy of popular lit. that bases them all
> on su- + whatever?

I believe that ON <Svíar>, Latin <Suiones>, and OE <Swêon>
are generally thought to be linguistically related, at
least.

Brian