History of Origin of Some Clans in India/Jat From Jutland/Sweden
History of Origin of Some Clans in India
(with special Reference to Jats)
By Mangal Sen Jindal (1992)
Publisher - Sarup & Sons, 4378/4B, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, ISBN 81-85431-08-6
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Chapter 1: Jat From Jutland
Sweden
"The foreign trade of Sweden was exclusively in the hands of a number of staple towns, of which Stockholm and Goteborg were by far the most important. The former was built on a number of islands and peninsulas in Lake Malar, and possessed good deep harbourage, although careful pilotage was necessary to effect entry. Goteborg commanded the maritime terminal of the central plain of Sweden in the West as did Stockholm in the east. It stood at the head of the estuary of the Gota which drains into the Katlegat, but Vessels could not reach the town and had to discharge their cargoes into lighters. [Goteborg]] imported grain and salt; it was the chief port for the herring fishing and for the Greenland whale hunting; it exported iron fish, and oil extracted from Whale and from herrings. In the transport of the bulk products of Sweden internal and external trade waterways played an important and increasing part. The many large lakes of central Sweden were linked up by a river and canal ways, thus the Stromsholm canal, facilitated the carriage of iron and copper from Dalecarnia to Stockholm, whilst the Capital was also linked with Orebro by way of Lakes Hjelonar and Vaner and auxiliary rivers or canals. The project of a continuous waterway between Stockholm and Goteborg was eventually carried out in 1800 by the cutting of a rocky bed for a canal past the Trolhatten cataracts on the Gota river, just below the point where it leaves the Vaner lake: prior to 1800 a short stoppage was necessary at this section of the river. The Trolhatten canal allowed passage to ships of 9 feet draught; it served above all a regional purpose as an outlet for iron and wood from Vermland." ..... An Historical Geography of Europe, page 399.
"At this time (A. D. 449) the Jut brothers, Hengist and Horra led a colony for Jutland and founded the Kingdom of
[p.105]: Kent (qu. Canthi, 'a coast'. in Sanskrit as in Gothic Kanta ?). The laws they had there introduced more especially the still prevaling one of gavel kind, where an the sons share equally, except the younger who has a double portion, are purely Scythic and brought by the original Goth from the Jaxartes.
Alaric had finished his career and Theodoric and Genseric (vie King in Sanskrit) were carrying their arms into Spain and Africa.... Annals of Rajasthan, Vol. 1, pages 89 to 90.