Fifty-Third Generation
53-1
Svegdi
FJOLNARSSON, son of Fjolnir Yngvi-Freysson, was born about 277
in Uppsala, Sweden. He married Vana about 297 in Sweden.
53-2
Vana
was born about 281 in Vanaheim, Sweden.
53-3
Snaer
(Svaer) JOKULSSON, KING IN KVENLAND, son of Jokul Frostasson,was born
about 275 in Finland.
53-5 Skjold, King of the DANES, son of Odin and Frigg Frea, was born about 237 in Hleithra, Denmark. He married Gefion about 258 in Hleithra, Denmark.
"This Scyld is the same person whom the Beowulf poet alludes to at the beginning of that poem."
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gefion.html
"Some of the oldest pre-English writings tell of a strange event at the beginning of time. They say that a ship once came drifting from the great sea and landed on the Danish coast. The only living creature on board was a little boy, sleeping on a golden shield. Otherwise the ship was loaded with tools and weapons. The Danes called the boy Skjold and made him King of Denmark. During his reign Denmark flourished. When King Skjold eventually died of old age, the Danes placed him on board the same ship as he had arrived on and sent him back to the gods."
http://es.geocities.com/xavialme/imagen/feroe/nordilegends.htm
"He told them about their forefathers. Their great-grandfather King Skjold (Shield), who was a son of Odin. It is told that Odin put his newborn male child in a longship, because he wanted to give the Danes a king who could unite the country."
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc26059/eskilsoe/history.htm
53-6 Gefion was born about 241 in Hleithra, Denmark.
"Gefion ("giver") is an old-Scandinavian vegetation and fertility goddess, especially connected with the plough. She was considered the patron of virgins and the bringer of good luck and prosperity. Every girl who dies a virgin will become Gefion's servant. She is married to King Skjold or Scyld, a son of Odin, and lived in Leire, Denmark, where she had a sanctuary. The Swedish kings are supposed to be her descendants. It is traditionally claimed that Gefion created the island of Zealand ("Sjaelland" in Danish) by ploughing the soil out of the central Swedish region with the help of her sons (four Swedish oxen), creating the great Swedish lakes in the process. In Copenhagen, Denmark, there is a large fountain showing Gefion in the process of ploughing."
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gefion.html
"Then he sent Gefion across the sound to the north to discover new countries; and she came to King Gylve, who gave her a ploughgate of land. Then she went to Jotunheim, and bore four sons to a giant, and transformed them into a yoke of oxen. She yoked them to a plough, and broke out the land into the ocean right opposite to Odins. This land was called Sealand, and there she afterwards settled and dwelt. Skjold, a son of Odin, married her, and they dwelt at Leidre. Where the ploughed land was is a lake or sea called Laage. In the Swedish land the fjords of Laage correspond to the nesses in Sealand. Brage the Old sings thus of it: --
Gefion from Gylve drove away,
To add new land to Denmark's sway --
Blythe Gefion ploughing in the smoke
That steamed up from her oxen-yoke:
Four heads, eight forehead stars had they,
Bright gleaming, as she ploughed away;
Dragging new lands from the deep main
To join them to the sweet isle's plain."
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/heim/02ynglga.htm
53-7 Marcomir IV, King of the FRANKS, son of Odomir, King of the Franks, was born before 128. He died in 149. He married Althildis, Princess of the BRITAINS in 129.
"Marcomir IV [Marcomer], king of the Franks 128-149, born circa 90, built the Marburg in Hessen, died 149 / 169, married: Athildis of Colchester, queen of the Franks, born circa 90, elder sister of Lleifer Mawr, king of the British."
http://www.mythopedia.info/ancestry-franks.htm
53-8 Althildis, Princess of the BRITAINS, daughter of Coel "Old King Cole", King of Britain, was born before 125 in Britain.
"Athildis was the daughter of "Old King Cole," known also as Colius I., who died in 170 A.D."
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/james/f010.htm
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