Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Area 87 ha Local time Sunday 5:13 AM | Province Västergötland Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 708 (31 Dec 2010) | |
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Municipality Gothenburg Municipality Weather 1°C, Wind E at 27 km/h, 91% Humidity | ||
Brännö is an island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago and a locality situated in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 708 inhabitants in 2010. and belongs to the parish of Styrsö within Gothenburg Municipality.
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History
Due to its geographical location, Brännö has throughout the centuries been a strategic location for seafarers and chieftains, from both Sweden and the adjacent Norway and Denmark.
It is believed that its inhabitants are the same as the Brondings who are referred to in the Anglo-Saxon poems Beowulf and Widsith. Beowulf, England's national epic, relates that Breca the Bronding was the childhood friend of the hero Beowulf and Widsith tells that Breca later was the lord of the Brondings.[1]
Brännö is mentioned in the icelandic Sagas as the location of several important thing assemblies in the Viking Age and later.[2] The Laxdæla saga relates that the beautiful Irish princess Melkorka was sold as a thrall to the Icelandic chieftain Höskuld Dalakollson, during a fair on Brännö, in the 10th century.