 It says even more of their loss of independence that when the "Law of the West Geats" was put to paper, in the 13th century, the law stated that the election and the deposing of the king rested with the Swedes and not with the Geats.In 1442, the law of the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish king Christopher of Bavaria, declared that the merging of Geatland into the Swedish kingdom took place in a distant pagan time.Translations of "Beowulf"