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Frithuwald [Mythological]
(Abt 0190-)
Beltsa [Mythological]
(Abt 0194-)
Odin [Mythological]
(Abt 0215-)
Freya [Mythological]
(Abt 0219-)
Skjöldr King of Denmark [Legendary]
(Abt 0237-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Gefion

Skjöldr King of Denmark [Legendary] 1 2

  • Born: Abt 237, <Hleithra, Denmark>
  • Marriage (1): Gefion

   Other names for Skjöldr were Skioldus and Skjold King of the Danes.

  Research Notes:

First legendary Danish king, supposedly the son of Odin and Friege.

From Wikipedia - Skjöldr :

Skjöldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings . He is mentioned in the Prose Edda , in Ynglinga saga , in Chronicon Lethrense , in Sven Aggesen 's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson 's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum . Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf . The various accounts have little in common.
In the Skjöldunga and the Ynglinga sagas , Odin came from Asia and conquered Northern Europe. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs (Scyldings ).


Skjöldr married Gefion. (Gefion was born in <Hleithra, Denmark>.)


Sources


1 Website - Genealogy, http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f002/f53/a0025398.htm.

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Skjöldr.


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