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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.
He was also called Yan Dan (Chinese: 燕丹; pinyin: Yān Dān). He lived in the State of Qin as a hostage, but returned to Yan in 232 BC. He sent Jing Ke to assassinate King Zheng of Qin, who later assumed the title Qin Shi Huang and became the first Emperor of China , but Jing failed.
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 ...
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 ...
Adam of Bremen was an 11th century German chronicler. Although not Danish himself, he spent time in the court of the Danish king Svend Estridson.Adam claims to derive much of the information on Danish history from his Latin chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ("Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") from conversations with Svend (whom he quotes verbatim in several places) and from ...
Jing Ke (died 227 BC) was a youxia during the late Warring States period of Ancient China.As a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state, he was infamous for his failed assassination attempt on King Zheng of the Qin state, who later became Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Dynasty's first emperor (from 221 BC to 210 BC).