Template:Kings of Gesta Danorum family tree

The family tree of legendary Kings of the Danes, according to the Gesta Danorum (Books I to VII)

Kings of the Danes are in bold and marked with an asterisk (*). Kings of the Swedes are marked with a dagger (†). Superscript numbers before a name indicate in which books of Gesta Danorum the individual is mentioned.

⁽¹⁾ Humble

KEY

⁽¹⁾ Angul

⁽¹⁾ Dan*

⁽¹⁾ Grytha

Marriage or coupling

Parent and child

The Angles

⁽¹⁾ Humble*

⁽¹⁾ Lother*

⁽¹⁾ King of the Saxons

Succession by other or unclear means

⁽¹⁾ Roar

⁽¹⁾ Sigtryg, King of the Swedes†

⁽¹⁾ Skiold*

⁽¹⁾ Alfhild

⁽¹⁾ daughter of Roar

⁽¹⁾ Bess

⁽¹⁾ sister of Gram

⁽¹⁾ Gróa

⁽¹⁾ Gram*†

⁽¹⁾ Sumble, King of the Finns

⁽¹⁾ Wagnhofde

⁽¹⁾ Signe

⁽¹⁾ Henry, King of the Saxons

⁽¹⁾ Hakon, King of the Nitherians

⁽¹⁾ Hardgrep

⁽¹⁾ Swipdag*†, King of Norway

⁽¹⁾ sister of Guthorm

⁽¹⁾ Guthorm*

^(1,2,5) Hadding*

⁽¹⁾ Ragnhild

⁽¹⁾ Asmund†

⁽¹⁾ Gunnhild

⁽¹⁾ Guthorm

^(1,2) Ulfhild

⁽²⁾ Ubbe*

⁽¹⁾ Henry

⁽¹⁾ Uffe†

^(1,2) Hunding†

⁽²⁾ Thorhild

⁽²⁾ Scot

⁽¹⁾ daughter of Uffe

⁽²⁾ Ragnar†

⁽²⁾ Swanhwid

⁽²⁾ sisters of Swanhwid

⁽²⁾ Handwan

⁽²⁾ Thorwald

^(2,5) Frode*

⁽²⁾ daughter of Handwan

^(2,3) Hothbrodd†

⁽²⁾ Halfdan*

⁽²⁾ Ro

⁽²⁾ Skat

⁽²⁾ Thora

^(2,3) Helge*

⁽²⁾ Ro*

^(2,3) Athisl†

⁽²⁾ Urse

^(2,3) King Gewar

^(2,3) Rolf*† Krage

⁽²⁾ Rute

⁽²⁾ Bjarke

⁽²⁾ Skulde

^(2,3) Hiartuar†*

^(2,3) Hother†*

⁽³⁾ Nanna

⁽³⁾ Herlek

⁽³⁾ Gerit

⁽³⁾ former King of Britain

⁽³⁾ mother of the King of Britain

⁽³⁾ a slave

⁽³⁾ a bondmaid

⁽³⁾ Rorik*

⁽³⁾ Gerwendil

^(3,4) King of Britain

^(3,4) Queen of Britain

^(3,4) Gerutha

^(3,4) Horwendil

^(3,4) Feng

^(3,4) foster sister of Amleth

^(3,4) daughter of the King of Britain

^(3,4) Amleth

⁽⁴⁾ Hermutrude, Queen of Scotland

⁽⁴⁾ Wiglek*

⁽⁴⁾ son of Amleth

⁽⁴⁾ Wermund*

⁽⁴⁾ Frowin, governor of Sleswik

⁽⁴⁾ Uffe*, aka Olaf the Gentle

⁽⁴⁾ daughter of Frowin

⁽⁴⁾ Ket

⁽⁴⁾ Wig

⁽⁴⁾ Dan*

⁽⁴⁾ Hugleik*

⁽⁴⁾ Frode* the Vigorous

⁽⁴⁾ Dan*

⁽⁵⁾ Kraka

⁽⁵⁾ Ragnar

⁽⁵⁾ Brak

^(4,5) Fridleif* the Swift

⁽⁵⁾ Hun, King of the Huns

⁽⁵⁾ Hun

⁽⁵⁾ Gotar, King of Norway

⁽⁵⁾ Westmar

⁽⁵⁾ Koll

⁽⁵⁾ Gotwar

⁽⁵⁾ Roller

⁽⁵⁾ Erik† Shrewd-spoken

⁽⁵⁾ Gunwar the Fair

⁽⁵⁾ Alfhild

⁽⁵⁾ Frode*

⁽⁵⁾ Hanund

⁽⁵⁾ Grep (eldest of three)

⁽⁵⁾ 11 other sons (two named Grep)

Hythin, King of Tellemark

⁽⁵⁾ Alf

⁽⁵⁾ Eyfura

⁽⁵⁾ Arngrim

Grubb

Hiarn*

Amund, King of Norway

[unnamed]

Halfdan†

⁽⁵⁾ 12 sons, including Anganty

Ane

Juritha

Fridleif*

Frogertha

Frok

Hanef, King of Saxony

Swerting, King of Saxony

Olaf

Frode*

Siward†

Unnamed sons

[unnamed]

Ingeld*

Helga

Helge

Asa

Frode

Fridleif

Ingeld

Olaf*

Karl, governor of Gothland

Ulfhild

Frode*

Hather, a chief

Harald*

Signe

Erik

Thorhild

Halfdan*† Biargramm

Harald

Asmund

Kings of Norway

Name spellings are derived from Oliver Elton's 1905 translation, The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, via Wikisource.

Notes on the family tree

This chart depicts the family tree described in Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, and no other source. It begins with Humble, the father of Dan, from Book I, and continues to the family of Halfdan Biargramm in Book VII, although Gesta Danorum contains sixteen books in total. The family tree ends at Halfdan Biargramm because, although Saxo gives him a son named Asmund by Thorhild, he is also described as childless and after his death the monarchies of Denmark and Sweden pass to the unrelated Yngwin, King of the Goths. Thereafter, further kings are related to Yngwin and not to the original family of kings.

The following characters from Gesta Danorum are related to the family of the kings of Denmark, but are not currently fit into the chart:
- Agnar, groom of Rute (II)
- Ingild, Agnar's father (II)
- Odd, a sea-king who is described as very closely related to King Frode, but not it is not explained how.
- Hakon, described in Book VI as a tyrant of Denmark and a king but not fitting in with the line of kings as described in the surrounding text. In this book, he may be an underling of king Frode (IV). In other works he is a sea-king.

Some assumptions have been made about the mothers of some individuals. It has generally been assumed that a king's children (especially those that inherit) are also the children of his wife if one has been named and no other parentage is given, although in many cases this is not explicit in the text. For example, Hadding's children may not have been borne by Ragnhild; Rolf is the only child of Helge explitly born to Urse; Hother's son Rorik may not be born to Nanna; and Wiglek's son Wermund might not be the son of Hermutrude. Also, although Swipdag's unnamed wife is described as the brother of Guthorm (and elsewhere it is said that Swipdag debauched Gram's daughter), it isn't clear that the unnamed wife is the daughter of Gram and Groa.

Hythin of Tellemark may have had both an unnamed son and an unnamed daughter, or just one child. On introduction, his son has been kidnapped by a giant and is rescued by Fridleif; later, Fridleif arranges for Hythin's daughter "whom he had once rescued from a monster" to marry Halfdan. Three possibilities: (1) there is a textual error in either the written source or the translation, (2) the rescue of the daughter is separate from the rescue of the son but not related in the text, (3) the son and daughter are the same individual.

The 12 sons of Eyfura are all named, as follows: Brand, Biarbe, Brodd, Hiarrande; Tand, Tyrfing, two Haddings; Hiortuar, Hiartuar, Hrane, Anganty. These are different from the 9 sons of a certain prince, including Anganty, who was a suitor of Helga, sister of Ingeld.

At the slaying of Swerting's sons, Starkad says that 7 people have been slain. This may indicate that there were 7 sons of Swerting, but this isn't explicit.

Saxo says that Olaf, the King who succeeded Ingeld, is either the son of Ingeld and his wife (the sister of Swerting's sons) or the son of Ingeld's sister (which one is not stated), although Saxo says the latter is doubtful. For simplicity, he is assumed to be Ingeld's son in this tree.