The Brondings were a Germanic tribe or clan. They and the Bronding Breca are mentioned in Beowulf (Th. 1047; B. 521.), as Beowulf's childhood friend, and in Widsith (Scóp Th. 51; Wíd. 25.), where Breca is the lord of the Brondings. They were probably the people of the Swedish island of Brännö, west of Västergötland in the Kattegatt. The term Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. ... In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, Breca the Bronding is Beowulf’s childhood friend who defeated him in a swimming match. ... Jump to: navigation, search The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ... Beowulf is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem titled after him (see Beowulf). ... Widsith is an Old English poem of 144 lines. ... Brännö (57°39′ N 11°47′ E) is an island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago of Sweden with about 800 inhabitants. ... Västergötland ( ♫) is one of the historical provinces of Sweden (landskap), situated in the southwest of Sweden. ... The Baltic Sea Kattegat, or Kattegatt, is a bay of the North Sea and a continuation of Skagerrak, bounded by Denmark and Sweden. ...
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