[gothic-l] Dan, Danai and the Greek Danoi

[Anþanareiks]

Regarding the Danoi and the Illiad. I do not recall anyone mentioning 
Saxo.


>From Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, the History of the Danes:
Chapter I, paragraph I. The beginning.

Now Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were 
begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only 
the founders of our race. (Yet Dudo, the historian of Normandy, 
considers that the Danes are sprung and named from the Danai.) And 
these two men, though by the wish and favour of their country they 
gained the lordship of the realm, and, owing to the wondrous deserts 
of their bravery, got the supreme power by the consenting voice of 
their countrymen, yet lived without the name of king: the usage 
whereof was not then commonly resorted to by any authority among our 
people. 



Anþanareiks



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