danes
appearance: c. -
dispersal: c. -
ascendancy: north germans[2]
the danes seem to have begun a little further south, closer to the netherlands. however, this particular patriarch of skjold does not continue patrilineally into modern history - it is destroyed by a family that invaded from russia but was probably originally swedish.
descendancy: skjoldings[2]
[1]: the role of migration in the history of the eurasian steppe, andrew bell-fialkoff, 2000
[2]: heimskringla, snorri sturlson, c. 1200
[3]: the germanic invasions, lucien musset, 1965
page last updated august 22, 2004