The Daukiones or Dauciones were a Germanic tribe mentioned by Ptolemy as living in Scandinavia. They are not necessarily the Danes (Dankiones--Daneiones), but, by abandoning D as a foreshortened enclitic, the Aviones (meaning islanders, cf. Germanic awi), well-known in the Germania, and perhaps a name borne by the inhabitants of Öland at this time. The term Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. ... Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece. ... Jump to: navigation, search Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ... The Auiones (*Awioniz meaning island people) were one of the Nerthus-worshipping tribes mentioned by Tacitus in Germania, and this tribe probably lived on Öland (Kendrick 1930:71). ... The Germania (Latin title: De Origine et situ Germanorum), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the diverse set of Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. ...   Öland? is an island in the Baltic Sea. ...

Sources

• Kendrick, T.D. (1930), A History of the Vikings, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.[1]