Geats, Geatas, Gautar, GothsE.g. Microsoft Encarta (on Swedish history), http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Volsunga/ translations from Old Norse, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9701 Anglo-Saxon or http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html Latin and the Primary Chronicle and modern scholarly works on Germanic tribes., Gotar, Gøtar, Götar were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern Sweden. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish counties of Västergötland and Östergötland, the Western and Eastern lands of the Geats, as well as in many toponyms.

The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.