  We review the correspondence between strongly coupled lattice multiflavor
Schwinger models and SU(N) antiferromagnetic chains. We show that finding the
low lying states of the gauge models is equivalent to solving an SU(N)
Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain. For the two-flavor lattice Schwinger model
the massless excitations correspond to gapless states of the Heisenberg chain,
while the massive states are created by fermion transport in the ground state
of the spin chain. Our analysis shows explicitly how spinons may arise in
lattice gauge theories.
