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The Scandinavian clan or ætt in Old Norse, was a social group based on common descent or on the formal acceptance into the group at a þing. Old Norse is the Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300. ...
A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free men of the community and presided by lawspeakers. ...
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In the absence of a police force, the clan was the primary force of security in Norse society as the clansmen were obliged by honour to avenge one another. The Norse clan was not tied to a certain territory in the same way as a Scottish clan, where the chief owned the territory. The land of the Scandinavian clan was owned by the individuals who had close neighbours from other clans. The name of the clan was derived from that of its ancestor, often with the addition of an -ung or -ing ending. Clan map of Scotland Scottish clans give a sense of identity and shared descent to people in Scotland and to their relatives throughout the world, with a formal structure of Clan Chiefs officially registered with the court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms which controls the heraldry and Coat...
As central government gradually was established in Scandinavia, the ætt lost its relevance for commoners. For royalty and nobility, however, it remained in use as the name for line and dynasty. Central government or the national government (or, in federal states, the federal government) is the government at the level of the nation state. ...
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. ...
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Examples of clans:
And of course the most famous of them all, the legendary *Ias Clan made up of the three brothers of Ias, Tobias, Mathias, and Elias, aka the Sons Of Ias. The Wægmundings were a prominent probably Swedish clan (an ätt, see Norse clans) in Beowulf. ...
The first page of Beowulf This article is about the epic poem. ...
The Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings were a prominent family/clan in Beowulf, Widsith and the Norse sagas. ...
Excerpt Njåls saga in the Möðruvallabók (AM 132 folio 13r) circia 1350. ...
Old English Scylfing and Old Norse Skilfing (Skilfingr) is the name of a legendary genealogical lineage or clan. ...
Old English Scylding (plural Scyldingas) and Old Norse Skjöldung (plural Skjöldungar), meaning in both languages Shielding, refers to members of a legendary royal family of Danes and sometimes to their people. ...
Illustration by Alan Lee In Norse mythology, Volsung was the father of Sigmund. ...
Coat of arms of Folkung family In modern Swedish, Folkung has two meanings, which appear to be opposites: The noble (royal) clan of some Folkungar, later named Folkungaätten (ätt means clan), who in effect introduced inheritance of the throne during the 12th century. ...
Runology In Runology, an aett is one of the three groups of eight runes of the Elder Futhark, viz., the "fehu aett" is fuþarkgw, the "haglaz aett" is hnijïpzs, and the "tyr aett" is tbemlŋdo. Additionally, it applies to one of the three groups of six runes of the Armanen Futharkh[1] Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets and inscriptions. ...
The 24 runes of the Elder Futhark The Elder Futhark (or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark) is the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and other Migration period Germanic dialects of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artefacts (jewellery...
The Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh as List called them) are a row of 18 runes closely based on the Younger Futhark invented by, or according to his claim revealed to, the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902. ...
See also For other uses, see Clan (disambiguation). ...
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