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E5: The Legacy of the All-Father IV - The House of Skjoldung and the Legendary Kings of Denmark
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The Legacy of the All-Father (Part 4): The House of Skjoldung
In this episode, Shawn heads back to Denmark to discuss the legendary Kings of Denmark all the way back to its supposed founding, with the House of Skjoldung. Since the completed Skjoldung Saga isn't available, we need to look at 7 different sources to track its family line, with roughly half of them showing Skjold, the family's namesake, as being the son of Odin.
We focus a bit on the last king of the Skjoldungs, Hrolf Kraki, his supposed timeline on this world, and use expert level math to show when the Norse…
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