According to Anglo-Saxon legends recounted in Widsith and other sources such as Æthelweard (Chronicon), the earliest ancestor of Scyld was a culture-hero named Sceaf, who was washed ashore as a child in an empty boat, bearing a sheaf of wheat. This is said to have occurred on an island named Scani or Scandza (), and according to William of Malmesbury (Gesta regum Anglorum) he was later chosen ...

Skjöldr (Old Norse Skjǫldr, Icelandic Skjöldur, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold, Latinized as Skioldus; Old English Scyld, Proto-Germanic *Skelduz ‘shield’) 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 Skjöldunga saga (or, in another standardised Old Norse spelling, Skjǫldunga saga) was an Old Norse legendary saga.Dating from c. 1180 – 1200, the saga was lost in its original form. The saga focused on the Danish dynasty of Scylding (Old Norse Skjöldung, plural Skjöldungar), the same semi-legendary dynasty featured in the Old English poem Beowulf.

King of Denmark from the House of Skjoldung. Hrolf was the son of Helgi and Yrsa. Helgi and Yrsa were actually father and daughter, but they didn't know their relationship. He was the half-brother of Skuld. Hrolf was also the father of Drifa and S...

Hrolf Kraki, a revered king from Denmark's House of Skjoldung, was renowned for his wisdom and generosity despite the tumultuous family dynamics surrounding his rule. Ascending the throne at eight following his father Helgi's death, his reign was marked by conflict with his brother-in-law Hjorvard, whom he cleverly sub...

The Saga of Hrolf 'Kraki', parallels and links with 'Beowulf', mythical background attached to the Danish Skjoldung dynasty in its neighbourly struggle. Background and pagan connotations...

Helgi (Skjoldung) According to the Hrolfs saga Kraka, Helgi was a King of Denmark. The saga also made him the son of Halfdan, the brother of Hroar (Old English Hrothgar), and the father of Hrolf Kraki and Skuld.

Skjöldunga saga. The lost Skjöldunga saga (c. 1180 – 1200) focused on the Skjöldung rulers of Denmark, analogous to the semi-legendary Scylding kings of the Danes featured in the Old English poem Beowulf.Before it was lost in the 17th century, the Icelandic humanist Arngrímur Jónsson (1568-1648) paraphrased parts of the saga into a Latin abstract, Rerum Danicarum Fragmenta, with an ...

Jun 3, 2016 · This small, dark and at first glance unprepossessing manuscript contains a fragment of the younger redaction of The saga of the Skjöldungs (Skjöldunga saga), the history of the most ancient Danish royal family, from Odin’s son, King Skjöld – Beowulf’s Scyld Scefing – to Gorm the Old.The fragment, which is known as Sögubrot af fornkonungum (Fragment of a saga about ancient kings ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was war and unrest in the area surrounding Lejre. The people were suffering and prayed to the god Odin to come to their aid.