Suardones
Eth. Suardones a tribe of the Suevi in Northern Germany, on the right bank of the Albis, south of the Saxones, and north of the Langobardi. (Tac. Germ. 40.) Zeuss (Die Deutschen, p. 154), deriving their name from suard or sward (a sword), regards it as identical with that of the Pharodini, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.11.13) as living in nearly the same part of Germany.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.