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The 'Suarines' (or 'Suardones') were one of the Nerthus-worshipping Germanic tribes mentioned by Tacitus in ''Germania''. They have otherwise been lost to history, but Schütte [1] suggests that their name lives on in the name of the town Schwerin.
According to some Italian scholars, there is trace of this tribe in a modern Lombard surname (''Suardi'').
:''After the Langobardi come the Reudigni, Auiones, Angli, Varni, Eudoses, Suarines and Nuithones all well guarded by rivers and forests. There is nothing remarkable about any of these tribes unless it be the common worship of Nerthus, that is Earth Mother. They believe she is interested in men's affairs and drives among them. On an island in the ocean sea there is a sacred grove wherein waits a holy wagon covered by a drape.'' (''Germania'' by Tacitus)