History of Denmark in 8th century
In the 8th century CE there are several kings of both mythical and quasi-historical carachter. The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf tells that Hroar was king of the Danes. The poem was written in the 8th century, but there is no clue to when the alledged events of the poem took place. A peculiar note to this is that Hroar actually was king, he was just king of the Herules; a sub-group of the Gothic tribes of central- and eastern Europe. Interestingly it is said that the heathen Herules wandered back north to their fellow believers when the Goths were christianised (Jordane).
Saxo lists a king Roar, son of Dan, who alledgedly founded the city of Roskilde, the capital of Denmark through a longer period in the Middle Ages, until Bishop Absalon founded Copenhagen, at the time only known as 'Hafn' (Habor).
Ongendus/Angantyr is also said to have ruled in this century, as well as Sigfrid.

The history of Beowulf
Beowulf is a long poem that somebody wrote down around 1000 AD. The poem is in Old English, so whoever wrote it probably lived in England. It's one of the oldest poems written in English (but not the oldest).

But the poem tells a story about things that happened in the early 500's AD - nearly 500 years before the poem was written down. The story takes place in Denmark and Sweden, and involves real people who lived in the early 500's AD, who we know about from other written stories in Swedish and also from archaeology.

When Beowulf was being composed and written, the Anglo-Saxons had only recently moved from Denmark and Sweden to England, so they still had a lot of friends and relatives back home, and they told stories about the things these people were doing.

Monsters or evil creatures abound in early Nothern European literatures; in the Anglo-Sasson Period in the pagan epic poem Beowulf, the homonymus hero fights the dragon Grendel, and Grendel's mother, while in the German epic cycle of the Nibelungenliend, Siegfred likewise mist and snow in the Northern hemisphere might have given rise tureal or imaginary monsters in the minds of these writers. Instead Christianity has interpetred such struggles as man's fight against the devil. In fourth century A.D., a young Cristian soldier named George killed a dragon in order to save a girl from being sacrificed.

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This following article by Sune Dahlgård was printed in the anti-immigration magazine Danskeren (The Dane) in April 1995. Sune Dahlgård was interned by the Germans during the Second World War because he had printed and distributed illegal papers. In order to avoid misunderstandings all quotations in italics are taken literally from comment to the Bill introduced by the minister of justice.

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