Are You Descended from the Viking King Gorm The Old ?

By some estimates, thousands upon thousands of people are descended from the Viking King Gorm The Old. For you to be born today from just 12 previous generations, you needed a total sum of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years and Gorm was born more than 1100 years ago estemating to be more than 30 previous generations today. In theory meaning that there will be more than a billion descentants of Viking King Gorm The Old today.

Proving descent from the Danish Viking King Gorm The Old is a notable achievement because it means establishing an unbroken line of descent for a period of 1,100 years! Moreover, a lineage to Gorm the Old will mean a lineage throug -and to many of the most distinguished royal and noble families of Europe and very likely all the way to the Emperor Charlemagne

In case you have forgotten your Viking history, Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle) was the first historically recognized king of Denmark, reigning in the early 10th century, around 936 to his death in 958. He established the Jelling Dynasty and is often credited with consolidating various Danish tribes under a single rule. Gorm's reign marked the beginning of Denmark's transformation from a collection of smaller kingdoms into a unified state. He is best known for commissioning a runestone in Jelling in honor of his wife, Queen Thyra, and his son, Harald Bluetooth, who succeeded him, later became a key figure in Christianizing Denmark. Gorm was a pagan and ruled during a time of great change in the Viking Age, setting the foundation for the future Danish monarchy. Gorm the Old was likely the son of semi-legendary Danish king Harthacnut (Hardeknud), who is believed to have been a ruler of parts of Denmark and possibly northern Germany. Harthacnut's father, Gorm's surposed grandfather, was said to be Sigfred "Sigurd" Snake-in-the-Eye, a famous Viking warrior and one of the sons of the legendary Ragnar Lothbrok, making Gorm's lineage part of a storied and powerful Viking family. Sigurd's connection to Ragnar gave Gorm a prestigious ancestral link, deeply rooted in Viking tradition and mythology.

According to Snorre did Gorm`´s son Harald Bluetooth when confronted with his nephew Guldharald's demand for half of Denmark as his inheritance, responds by listing his ancestors, He says that no man had demanded this of King Gorm, his father, that he should become a half-king in Denmark; nor of his father before him, Harthacnut, or of Harthacnut's father, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, or of Sigurd's father, Ragnar Lothbrok. But is it saga or history ?

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