Sceaf

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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).

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