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Geatland

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The land of the Geats, an old Scandinavian people. In Beowulf, it is Beowulf’s homeland.

Detailed Definition
Geatland is the traditional name for the territory associated with the Geats, a people from southern Scandinavia in Old English literature. It appears in heroic poetry as Beowulf’s native land and helps place the story in a legendary Germanic past.
Example
Example in poetry:
Geatland is the homeland of the Geats in Beowulf, usually associated with southern Sweden; Beowulf begins as a Geatish hero who crosses the sea to aid the Danish king Hrothgar; “Then came from the moor under misty slopes / Grendel walking” contrasts Danish danger with the distant safety of Geatland in the epic; A modern retelling may invoke “Geatland’s cold shores” to signal heroic ancestry, seafaring, and the Anglo-Saxon world
Additional Notes
The place name in the line is specific to Old English legend and is not a common modern location name.; Found in the poem, Beowulf's Saga by Richard
Also Known As
Land of the Geats Scandinavian Region Heroic Homeland
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