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427: 447:, probably in error by a scribe who thought it was an abbreviation for the name of the poem's hero, who is quite a different person). Halfdan/Healfdene seems to be the direct son of Beaw in the poem. But all Scandinavian sources that mention both Skjöld and Halfdan put Halfdan some generations after Skjöld and make no mention of King Beaw (save for a genealogy in the Prologue to 31: 527:
Saxo in Books 4–5, long after the reign of Halfdan and the fall of the Skjöldung dynasty, also introduces a king named Dan, the third king with that name in his account, whose son is Fridleif whose son is Fróði under whose reign the world achieves peace. This Fróði is also the father of a son named
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who corresponds to Hjörvard in the Old Norse accounts where Hjörvard's parentage is not told. The Old Norse accounts make Hjörvard to be the husband of Hrólf's sister and tell how Hjörvard rebelled against King Hrólf and burned him in his hall. But Hjörvard was himself soon slain and with him the
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Mikilláti. The second Fróði is known both as Fróði Mikilláti and Fróði the Peace-lover and looks suspiciously like a duplicate of the other peaceful Fróði. Snorri makes this second Fróði the father of Halfdan and of another son named Fridleif.
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are very inconsistent in extant texts and it would appear that different writers and story tellers differently arranged what tales of legendary Danish kings they knew in whatever order seemed best to them.
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is also a simple adjective meaning "fierce" and a common kenning for "king", it might be that Saxo or a source has misunderstood some account referring to Beaw as being
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kings, that in its time conquered and ruled Denmark and Sweden together with part of England, Ireland and North Germany. The name is explained in many texts, such as
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All Old English texts call Scyld's son and successor Beaw or some similar name. (The name was expanded to Beowulf in the poem
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and wrongly taken it here as a personal name. Saxo has much to tell of this Gram who becomes the father of
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The number, names, and order of the Skjöldung kings vary greatly in different texts until one comes to
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also. But in this work Snorri also introduces a second, later Fróði, said to be son of certain
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under whose reign the world was at peace. Snorri mentions this Fróði son of Fridleif in the
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There are other differing accounts of Halfdan's ancestors. The names, number, and order of
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of whom he has even more to relate, Hadingus in turn becomes the father of a king
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His name means 'barley', and he has been associated with the later figure of
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of wheat. This is said to have occurred on an island named Scani or
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people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend
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Eponymous ancestor of the 539: 470:(Book 1), Skjöld was succeeded by a son named 119:According to Anglo-Saxon legends recounted in 703: 99:, but it survives only in a Latin summary by 624:, a possible branch of the Scyldings in the 2432: 732:Mythological Norse people, items and places 64:Skjǫldungar), both meaning "descendants of 710: 696: 679:Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte 115:Sceaf § Variations on Sceaf's lineage 87:Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte 1530:List of figures in Germanic heroic legend 457:which is taken from English traditions). 421: 253:Banished by his subjects and fled to the 425: 29: 76:'s 'Research on the Field of History' ( 14: 2785: 691: 577:rule of the Skjöldung dynasty ended. 544:In all accounts Halfdan is father of 106: 580: 1590:named weapons, armour and treasures 24: 2767:Heathenry (new religious movement) 25: 2819: 560:). 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Index

Scyldings

genitive
plural
OE
ON
Scyld
Danish
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
‹See Tfd›
German
Norse saga
Skjöldunga saga
Arngrímur Jónsson
Sceaf § Variations on Sceaf's lineage
Æthelweard
Sceaf
sheaf
Scandza
Scania
William of Malmesbury
Schleswig
Sceldwea
Snorri Sturluson
Prologue to the Prose Edda
Sceaf
Annarr
Heremod
Hermóðr
Jutes

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