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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Yngling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Likewise in the Skáldskaparmál the Scylfings are described as an eastern family and East King was a conventional kenning for a Swedish king.
A Scylfing whose name is partly missing but ends in -ela married the sister of Hrothgar and Halga.
Specifically identified as Scylfings are Ongentheow, king of Sweden, and by extension his subject Wiglaf son of Weohstan.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Yngling   (1641 words)

  
 Yngling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ynglings (Heimskringla), Scylfings (Beowulf and Ynglingatal) or Sons of Frey (Gesta Danorum and Ynglingatal) was the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty.
However, in the Ættartolur, (the genealogies attached to Hversu Noregr byggdist), the Skilfings are of Norwegian origin and include a family identified as Skjöldungs.
The Beowulf poet uses it to refer to Ongentheow's son Onela.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scylfing   (1680 words)

  
 Haki - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
When they learnt that king Haki's champions were gone plundering, they assembled a large force and steered towards Sweden.
They were joined by many Swedes who wanted to reinstall the Scylfing dynasty on the Swedish throne.
The two brothers entered Mälaren, went towards Uppsala, and landed on the Fyrisvellir.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Haki   (506 words)

  
 Schulers Books (Beowulf - 20/101)
He rejects at the same time Hygelâc's kingdom and the hand of his widow (2370 ff.), but carries on the government as guardian of the young Heardrêd, son of Hygelâc, 2378 ff.
According to the restored text, she is the wife of Ongenþeów, the Scylfing, 62, 63.
Eádgilse, 2393), son of Ôhthere, and grandson of Ongenþeów, the Scylfing, 2393.
www.schulers.com /books/epic/b/Beowulf/Beowulf20.htm   (1579 words)

  
 Scylfing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scylfing is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
The Scandinavian clan or ætt in Old Norse, was a social group based on common descent or on the formal acceptance into the group at a þing.
Scylfing: Encyclopedia II - Halfdan the Old - Halfdan the Old ancestor of many lineages
www.experiencefestival.com.cob-web.org:8888 /scylfing   (1103 words)

  
 Halfdan - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But Kluge has been seldom followed by editors or translators, in part because Sævil in Hrólf Kraki's Saga is in no way connected with Sweden so far as is told.
Since the only certain Swedish (Scylfing) royal name ending in -ela that has come down to us is Onela, more often -ela is expanded instead to Onela.
By Old English poetic rules of alliteration the name of the daughter must also begin with a vowel.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Halfdan   (1153 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Jutland
This is thought by some to be related to the drive of the Huns from Asia across Europe, although the arrival of the Danes would more likely have been a major contributory factor, since conflicts between the Danes and the Jutes were both many and bloody.
The Danes themselves trace their ancestry back to the ancient Scylfing kings people who lived around Uppsala, Sweden in the time before recorded history in Scandinavia.
In time, however, these hostilities were decreased by intermarriage between Jutes and Danes.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Jutland   (711 words)

  
 Beowulf eBook
In ire, at the king Wulf Wonreding with weapon struck; and the chieftain’s blood, for that blow, in streams flowed ’neath his hair.
No fear felt he, stout old Scylfing, but straightway repaid in better bargain that bitter stroke and faced his foe with fell intent.
Nor swift enough was the son of Wonred answer to render the aged chief; too soon on his head the helm was cloven; blood-bedecked he bowed to earth, and fell adown; not doomed was he yet, and well he waxed, though the wound was sore.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/981/43.html   (411 words)

  
 Visbur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They then returned and planned to murder their father.
The völva Huld was hired to help them, but she prophesied that killing kin would lead to having kinslaying as a permanent trait in the House of Yngling (Scylfing).
They did not care about this warning, went to their father and burnt him to death inside his hall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visbur   (238 words)

  
 Death of Beowulf
At morn, I heard, was the murderer killed by kinsman for kinsman,1 with clash of sword, when Ongentheow met Eofor there.
WIGLAF his name was, Weohstan's son, linden-thane loved, the lord of Scylfings, Aelfhere's kinsman.
His king he now saw with heat under helmet hard oppressed.
www.m8y.org   (3362 words)

  
 Beowulf
But fearlessly he stood, And paid anon with better one for the
slaughter-wound, As he, the King, the old Scylfing, had turned on
And the swift Wonreding no counter-buffet gave Before the Jarl,
www.pinkmonkey.com /dl/library1/beowulf98.asp   (390 words)

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