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Sceafa (Old English: Scēafa [ʃæːɑvɑ], also spelled Scēaf, Scēf) was an ancient king in English legend. According to his story, Sceafa appeared mysteriously as a child, coming out of the sea in an empty skiff.
Various English kings traced their ancestry back to him. Originally pagans, they believed Sceaf was related to their god, [[Woden]], but after they became Christians, they began to doubt this and later came up with a different explanation: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from the year 855, explains instead that Scef was born in Noah's Ark, interpreting Sceaf as a non-Biblical son of Noah, and then continuing with the ancestry of Noah up to Adam as found in Genesis. Others believe that Sceaf was the son, or a descendant, of [[Japheth]], the ancestor of all Indo-European peoples according to the Bible. Sceaf is technically the earliest known non-Biblical ancestor of the current British Royal Family.
== His lineage ==
Sceaf.
Bedwig.
Hwala.
Hadra.
Itermon.
Heremo.
Scyldwa.
Beowulf.
Tetuua.
Geat(a).
Godwulf.
Frinn.
Freudulf.
Frealeaf.
Woden.
Baeldaeg.
Brond.
Fridgar.
Freowine.
Wig.
Giwis.
Esla.
Aluca/Elesa.
Cerdic (first King of Wessex).
Various English kings traced their ancestry back to him. Originally pagans, they believed Sceaf was related to their god, [[Woden]], but after they became Christians, they began to doubt this and later came up with a different explanation: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from the year 855, explains instead that Scef was born in Noah's Ark, interpreting Sceaf as a non-Biblical son of Noah, and then continuing with the ancestry of Noah up to Adam as found in Genesis. Others believe that Sceaf was the son, or a descendant, of [[Japheth]], the ancestor of all Indo-European peoples according to the Bible. Sceaf is technically the earliest known non-Biblical ancestor of the current British Royal Family.
== His lineage ==
Sceaf.
Bedwig.
Hwala.
Hadra.
Itermon.
Heremo.
Scyldwa.
Beowulf.
Tetuua.
Geat(a).
Godwulf.
Frinn.
Freudulf.
Frealeaf.
Woden.
Baeldaeg.
Brond.
Fridgar.
Freowine.
Wig.
Giwis.
Esla.
Aluca/Elesa.
Cerdic (first King of Wessex).