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Brännö

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Brännö (57°39′N 11°47′E / 57.650°N 11.783°E / 57.650; 11.783) is an island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago of Sweden with about 800 inhabitants. Its urban area is also known as Brännö, and has about 620 inhabitants (2000). Administratively it belongs to the parsish of Styrsö within Gothenburg Municipality.

Due to its geographical location, Brännö has throughout the centuries been a stretegical location for seafarers and chieftains, from both Sweden and the adjacent Norway and Denmark. Brännö is mentioned in the icelandic Sagas as the location of several important thing assemblies in the Viking Age and later.

According to an interpretation by Joseph Bosworth in his posthumous Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), its inhabitants are referred to in the Anglo-Saxon poems of the Beowulf and Widsith as the Brondings. Beowulf, England's national epic, relates that Breca was the childhood friend of the hero Beowulf and Widsith tells that Breca later was the lord of the Brondings.

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