Geat
Anglo Saxon · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
A GOD ATTESTED BY A BISHOP WRITING A KING'S BIOGRAPHY, IN A SENTENCE EXPLAINING THE KING'S ANCESTRY. The genealogy is not written into parentIds: a royal house's claim to descend from Woden through Geat is a claim about a dynasty's legitimacy, and this registry records descent it is prepared to assert. Carries a verified-solitary verdict.
Sources
- Geat is a figure of the West Saxon royal genealogy of whom Asser reports that the pagans long worshipped him as a god.: Reference treatments of Anglo-Saxon paganism and of Asser's Life of King Alfred. (secondary)