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The Geatish Society sought to revive Viking spirit and related matters, and the members would write extensively on the Aesir and other parts of Norse mythology. The historical writings of Olaus Rudbeckius were also revived and used for creating vivid imagery. In their poems, especially the rich illustrations, actual Norse elements would be mixed with, for instance Scandinavian Bronze Age, Celtic, Greek and Roman elements in order to create a modern mythology of the past.

Among the most famous members were Esaias Tegnér and Erik Gustaf Geijer. Some of their most famous poems were composed under the influence of the ideas and sentiments of the Geatish Society, notably Frithiofs saga by Tegnér, as well as other minor poems named Vikingen, Odalbonden and Skidbladner. The latter were published in Iduna, the newsletter of the society.

Members of the society would write extensively on the Vikings, often in a way that described a kind of brave ancient people that had nothing in common with the actual Vikings. Members of the Geatish Society would occasionally wear horned helmets, which is the source of the mythMythology For the computer game, see Myth (computer game). A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom of their elders through oral tra that Vikings would have worn such helmets. (Actually they never did.)

The mythology and imagery of this movement was very popular in Nazi GermanyNazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933 1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of National Socialism with Adolf Hitler as dictator. The term Nazi is a short form of the German, and among Nazistsswastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on the Prussian co (to this day), though ideologically there is no obvious connection.

See also: GeatsGeats Gautar Old Norse or Gotar in Swedish) is the Old English spelling of the name of a Scandinavian people living in Gotaland, land of the Geats, currently within the borders of modern Sweden. The name of the Geats lives on in the Swedish counties of Va