General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> King
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> GS5J-M4
Crimia  circa 100 BC as Sigge, took name of ODIN, went north in 70 BC to escape the Roman Army from Syria under General Pompey.
# Birth: ABT 0210 in Asgard,Asia
# Death: in Deceased in Lake Malaren, Uppsala, Sweden
# Note: A. Early legendary kings of Denmark.
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# Note: The kings of Denmark, like the Saxon, Norwegian, and Swedish rulers, all claim descent from Odin. Odin's real name, according to the old stories, was Sigge Fridulfson, but he called himself Odin so that people would worship him.
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Odin is said to have come from Asgard, the legendary home of the gods. (Interestingly, the twelth-century Danish historian Saxo identifies Asgard with Byzantium.) Traveling north from Asgard in the first century AD, Odin allegedly founded the
Kingdom of the Svear in Uppsala sometime before the Christian era.
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King Odin, we are told, had five sons. They reigned over various parts of Scandinavia, and at least two of them ruled in Denmark. (One must remember that Denmark at that time included Skane. Although this region has belonged to Sweden in modern
times, it was Danish from legendary through medieval times.) We shall not endeavor to mention all the legendary kings of Denmark, but rather highlight some of the more famous and interesting heroes of the sagas.
The Danish kings, like those of Norway and Sweden, did not always follow a direct line of succession from father to son. But they were required to be of noble blood, and they were elected by a gathering of nobles known as the "Thing". [Royal
Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev]


All of the genealogy of this total line comes from:
"The Pedigree of the Washington Family" [Preface]
By Albrt Welles, President of American Colloge for Genealogical Registry and Heraldry, New York Society Library, 1879

Odin, the son of Fridulf, supreme ruler of the Scythians, in Asaland, or Asaheim, Turkestan, between the Euxine and Caspian Seas, in Asia. He reigned at Asgard, whence he removed in the year B.C. 70, and became the first King of Scandinavia. He died in the year 50 B.C., and was succeeded by his two sons, who reigned in different parts of Scandinavia. His son Skiold became King of Zealand and Jutland, B.C. 50, and died B.C. 40.