ca 241 Hleithra, Denmark - Odin (Woden, Woutan), b. ДЄxel Olrik in 1910 suggested a parallel 'barley-figure' in Finnish Peko, in turn connected by Fulk (1989) with Eddaic Bergelmir. Brother is Skjold - King of the Danes b ca 237 Hleithra, Denmark, m. William of Malmesbury's 12th century Chronicle tells the story of Sceafa as a sleeping child in a boat without oars with a sheaf of corn at his head. After relating in general terms the glories of Scyld's reign, the poet describes Scyld's funeral, his body was laid in a ship surrounded by treasures: They decked his body no less bountifullyДЄnd launched him alone out over the waves. The next person we are looking for after Dardanus is Skjold, King of the Danes, who was the son of Woden, King of Saxons. The Beowulf poet places him in a boat which is seen in other stories about Scef as a child in a boat. Pictured left: The Norse god Thor, the god of lightning, is depicted in this 1872 painting by MГҐrten Eskil Winge in a battle against the giants (Image courtesy of Wilsons Almanac). He appears in the opening lines of Beowulf, where he is referred to as Scyld Scefing, indicating he is a descendant of Sceafa, Scyld son of Scef, or Scyld of the Sheaf. He is the counterpart of the Skioldus or SkjГ¶ldr of Danish and Icelandic sources. Skjldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings. Scyld Scefing is the legendary ancestor of the Danish royal lineage known as the Scyldings. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark SkjГ¶ldungs. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son SkjГ¶ldr. In the SkjГ¶ldunga saga and the Ynglinga saga, Odin came from Asia (Scythia) and conquered Northern Europe. The various accounts have little in common. Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. He is mentioned in the Prose Edda, in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in ArngrГmur JГіnsson's Latin abstract of the lost SkjГ¶ldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. SkjГ¶ldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings.

Skjold king of the danes