Descendants of Darius I Great to Alfred Landon

Generation 28 (con't)
The ? rune (with variants and ) together with Peorð and Eihwaz is among the problematic cases
of runes of uncertain derivation unattested in early inscriptions. The rune first appears
independently on the futhark row of the Kylver stone, and is altogether unattested as an
independent rune outside of such rows. There are a number of attestations of the i?? bindrune or
(the "lantern rune", similar in shape to the Anglo-Saxon G?r rune ?), but its identification is disputed
in most cases, since the same sign may also be a mirror rune of Wynn or Thurisaz. The earliest
case of such an i?? bindrune of reasonable certain reading is the inscription mari??s (perhaps
referring to the "Mærings" or Ostrogoths) on the silver buckle of Szabadbattyán, dated to the 5th
century.
The Old English Runic Poem contains these obscure lines:
? Ing wæs ærest mid Eástdenum
gesewen secgum, oð he síððan eást
ofer wæg gewát. wæn æfter ran.
þus Heardingas þone hæle nemdon.
"? Ing was first amidst the East Danes
so seen, until he went eastward
over the sea. His wagon ran after.
Thus the Heardings named that hero."
Norse Yngvi
In Scandinavian mythology, Yngvi, alternatively Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a
legendary dynasty of Swedish kings from whom the earliest historical Norwegian kings in turn
claimed to be descended, see also Freyr.
Information on Yngvi varies in different traditions as follows:
" Yngvi is a name of the god Freyr, perhaps intended as Freyr's true name while Frey 'Lord'
is his common title. In the Ynglinga saga and in Gesta Danorum, Frey is euhemerized as a king of
Sweden. In the Ynglinga saga, Yngvi-Frey reigned in succession to his father Njörd who in turn
succeeded Odin. Yngvi-Frey's descendants were the Ynglings.
" In the Íslendingabók Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey' appears as father of
Njörd who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Freyr, the ancestor of the Ynglings.
" In the Skjöldunga saga Odin came from Asia and conquered Northern Europe. He gave
Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr. Since then the kings of Sweden were
called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs (Scyldings).
" In Historia Norwegiæ, Ingui is the first king of Sweden, and the father of Njord, the father of
Freyr: Rex itaque Ingui, quem primum Swethiæ monarchiam rexisse plurimi astruunt, genuit
Neorth, qui vero genuit Froy; hos ambos tota illorum posteritas per longa sæcula ut deos venerati
sunt. Froyr vero genuit Fiolni, qui in dolio medonis dimersus est,[...].
" In the introduction to Snorri Sturluson's Edda Snorri claims again that Odin reigned in
Sweden and relates: "Odin had with him one of his sons called Yngvi, who was king in Sweden
after him; and those houses come from him that are named Ynglings." Snorri here does not identify
Yngvi and Frey though Frey occasionally appears elsewhere as a son of Odin instead of a son of
Njörd. See Sons of Odin.
" In the Skáldskaparmál section of Snorri Sturluson's Edda Snorri brings in the ancient king
Halfdan the Old who is the father of nine sons whose names are all words meaning 'king' or 'lord' in
Old Norse and nine other sons who are the forefathers of various royal lineages, including "Yngvi,
from whom the Ynglings are descended". But rather oddly Snorri immediately follows this with
information on what should be four other personages who were not sons of Halfdan but who also
fathered dynasties and names the first of these as "Yngvi, from whom the Ynglings are
descended". In the related account in the Ættartolur ('Genealogies') attached to Hversu Noregr
byggdist, the name Skelfir appears instead of Yngvi in the list of Halfdan's sons. For more details
see Scylfing