Individual Details

Skjold LEGENDARY

(Abt 237 - )

He was among the first legendary Danish kings. He is mentioned in the Prose Edda, in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. The various accounts have little in common.

Events

BirthAbt 237Hleithra, Denmark

Families

SpouseGefion (241 - )
ChildFridleif I SKJOLDASSON (259 - )
FatherWoden LEGENDARY (215 - )
MotherFriege LEGENDARY (219 - )
SiblingBaldur (243 - )
SiblingWecta ( - )
SiblingSeaxneat D'ESSEX ( - )