Editing Swedes (tribe) (section)

==Name==
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As the dominions of the Swedish kings grew, the name of the tribe could be applied more generally during the [[Middle Ages]] to include also the [[Geats]]. Later it again meant only the people inhabiting the original tribal lands in [[Svealand]], rather than the Geats.
[[File:Pireuslejonet.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Piraeus Lion]] drawing of curved [[lindworm]]. The runes on the lion tell of [[Swedish people|Swedish]] warriors, most likely [[Varangians]], mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Emperor.]]

In modern [[North Germanic languages]], the adjectival form ''svensk'' and its plural ''svenskar'' have replaced the name ''svear'' and is, today, used to denote all the citizens of Sweden. The distinction between the tribal Swedes (''svear'') and modern Swedes (''svenskar'') appears to have been in effect by the early 20th century, when ''[[Nordisk familjebok]]'' noted that ''svenskar'' had almost replaced ''svear'' as a name for the Swedish people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/nfcg/0605.html|title=1129–1130 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 27. Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor)|date=6 July 1918|website=runeberg.org|access-date=9 January 2007|archive-date=3 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103091640/http://runeberg.org/nfcg/0605.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Although this distinction is convention in modern Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]] do not distinguish between ''svíar'' (Icelandic) or ''sviar'' (Faroese) and ''sænskir'' (Icelandic) or ''svenskarar'' (Faroese) as words for modern Swedes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fmn.fo/listar/lond_og_tjodir/lond-tjodir.htm#s|title=fmn.fo|website=www.fmn.fo|access-date=16 October 2010|archive-date=17 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717173747/http://www.fmn.fo/listar/lond_og_tjodir/lond-tjodir.htm#s|url-status=live}}</ref>