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Dan apparently first ruled in Zealand, as the Chronicle states that it was when he saved his people from an attack by Emperor Augustus that the Jutes and the men of Fyn and Scania also accepted him as king. Consequently, the resulting expanded country of Denmark was named after him. Dan's wife was named Dana, and his son was named Ro.
Dan I was the progenitor of the Danish royal house according to Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum. He supposedly held the lordship of Denmark along with his brother Angul , the father of the Angles in Angeln , which later formed the Anglo-Saxons in England.
The Tribe of Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah.According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Judah and the Philistines but migrated north due to pressure of their enemies, settling at Laish (later known as Dan), near Mount Hermon.
Gesta Danorum, 4.6 [1] The Danish History, Book Four [2]; Uffoni Dan filius succedit. Qui cum, transfusis in exteros proeliis, trophaeorum frequentia rerum dominium propagasset, partum gloriae fulgorem taetro superbiae squalore fuscavit, ita a clarissimi parentis honestate degenerans, ut, cum ille ceteris moderatione praestiterit, hic ceteros fastuosa tumidus elatione contempserit.
In the Chronicle of Lejre Dan, the son of King Ypper of Uppsala, becomes king of the Danes, while his brothers Nori and Östen become kings of Norway and the Swedes. [4] Consistent with this, in Jordanes ' Getica , written in the 6th century, the Danes , of the same tribe as the Swedes , are said to have emigrated from Sweden to Denmark in ...
Ongendus was a king of the Danes, reigning c. 710, the first Danish king known from contemporary literature. Randver, sometimes assigned to the early 700s. Son of Valdar (or Radbard) according to late sagas; fell in England. Valdar, sometimes assigned to the early 700s. Son-in-law of Ivar Vidfamne and sub-king in Denmark according to the late ...
Painting of the Duke of Zhou by Kanō Sansetsu. Japan, Edo period, 1632. His personal name was Dan (旦).He was the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou and Queen Tai Si.His eldest brother Bo Yikao predeceased their father (supposedly a victim of cannibalism); the second-eldest defeated the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye around 1046 BC, ascending the throne as King Wu.
Dan* Grytha: Marriage or coupling: Parent and child: The Angles: Humble* Lother* King of the Saxons: Inheritance by other or unclear means: Sigtryg, King of the Swedes† Skiold* Alfhild: Sumble, King of the Finns: Gróa: Gram*† Signe: Henry, King of the Saxons: Hakon, King of the Nitherians: Swipdag*† [unnamed] Guthorm* Hadding* Ragnhild ...