slain and with him the rule of the Skjöldung dynasty ended. A later lineage said to be of Skjöldung descent: Halfdan the Valiant Ivar Vidfamne Harald Hildetand...

Though Halfdan is himself called a Skjöldung in verse 14, in verse 16 the Skjöldungs are named instead as one of the families that sprang from Halfdan's marriage...

other two sons. Two sources also mention Halfdan's daughter. According to the Latin epitome of the Skjöldung saga, the sons of Halfdanus are called Roas...

contradictions within the Ættartölur. Included also is material on the Danish Skjöldung lineage and the Yngling lineage as ancestors of Harald Fairhair, including...

Ynglinga saga, he was a son of Fróði of the Skjöldung (Scylding) lineage. In that work he was the brother of Halfdan and the father of Áli the Strong. Fridleif...

Skelfir was called the Skilfing lineage or the Skjöldung lineage, seemingly identifying the two. But Skjöldungs are normally the legendary royal family of...

(Hroðgar) of the house of Skjöldung (Scylding). While Guðröðr married Åsa, daughter of the Swedish king Ingjald Illruler, Halfdan's queen was Moald Digra...

Halga, his uncle Hróarr as Hroðgar, his grandfather Halfdan as Healfdene and their clan, the Skjöldungs, as the Scyldings. Moreover, some of their enemies...

this poem some editors represent Onela as the son-in-law of Healfdene/Halfdan king of Denmark. The animosity between Eadgils and Onela also appears in...

Skáldskaparmál section of his Prose Edda Snorri brings in the ancient king Halfdan the Old who is the father of nine sons whose names are all words meaning...

(Hroðgar) of the house of Skjöldung (Scylding). This source makes Valdar the father of Harald the Old, the father of Halfdan the Valiant, the father of...

writes that Harald was the son of Halfdan, Borkar's son, and a woman named Gyrid, the last member of the Skjöldungs. According to Sögubrot, his mother...

descended from Harald Fairhair (for example questioning the identification of Halfdan in Hadafylke with the father of Sigurd Syr or Harald Fairhair's fathering...

constituted what has later been dubbed the Lejre Kingdom, ruled by the Skjöldung dynasty. Some time around the middle of the First Millennium, both Jutland...

Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs. In Gesta Danorum, Skioldus is the son of Lotherus, a wicked king who...

(Saxo's Helgi is based on both the Ylfing Helgi Hundingsbane and the Danish skjöldung king Helgi.) Gesta Danorum på danskæ is an Old Danish work based, in part...

Gesta Danorum and Beowulf it dealt with the legendary Danish Scylding (Skjöldung) dynasty, and it would be the main source for future sagas on the Danish...

245. The son is not named in the more original R version, but called Halfdan in the U and H ones. Tolkien 1960, pp. 23ff. Krause 2010, p. 114. Cleasby...

became Ragnar's descendants. On Iceland, the traditions of the Yngling and Skjöldung dynasties were added by connecting him to Harald Wartooth and making Ragnar...

hnøggvanbaugi ("ring stingy"). This epithet survives in Langfeðgatal where a Skjöldung (Scylding) named Hrærekr hnøggvanbaugi is the successor of Hrólfr kraki...